Holotype.

Mesibov

Robert

New species of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae)

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Agathodesmus

anici

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sp. n.

Fig. 6D

Holotype.

Male, 11 km W by N of Bald Hill, McIlwraith Range, Qld, search party campsite, 13°44'S, 143°20"E ±2 km, 520 m a.s.l., 27 June–12 July 1989, T.A. Weir, ANIC berlesate 1111, closed forest, leaf and log litter, in several pieces in genitalia vial, ANIC 64-000327.

Other material.

None.

Diagnostic description.

Male with head + 20 rings. Colour in alcohol pale white. Male ca 7.5 mm long; ring 12 maximum diameter ca 0.6 mm, maximum width ca 0.75 mm. Metatergal tubercles in 7-8 irregular transverse rows, mainly without setae; metatergal setae long, pointed; 4 lateralmost tubercles not enlarged, forming very narrow pseudo-paranotum. Male leg 6 coxa with prominent mediodistal projection. Telopodite (Fig. 6D) with pp straight; at in transverse plane, short, narrowly triangular and with tip curving posteriorly; dp directed posterobasally and laterally at base; mab shallowly divided into narrower anterior and wider posterior lobes; meb curving behind mab and divided at ca 1/3 length into short, needle-like medial and broader lateral processes, the latter following the curve of the posterior mab lobe and nearly as long.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality on the Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland (Fig. 1).

Name.

In honour of ANIC, the Australian National Insect Collection, whose collection of berlesates has yielded many new species of Australian millipedes.

Remarks.

The telson of the holotype is damaged and the distal portions of legs 6 are missing.

Figure 6.

Posterior gonopod views. A Agathodesmus adelphus sp. n., holotype, QM S96015 B Agathodesmus aenigmaticus sp. n., paratype ex QM S96018 C Agathodesmus agnus sp. n., paratype ex QM S96021 D Agathodesmus anici sp. n., holotype, ANIC 64-000327. A and D are uncoated specimens; scale bars = 0.1 mm. Note two mites on Agathodesmus adelphus sp. n. telopodites.

Figure 1.

Localities for Agathodesmus spp. in Australia (filled black squares) as of July 2012. 1 = only known locality for Agathodesmus anici sp. n. 2 = cluster of 4 localities for Agathodesmus chandleri sp. n., ? = questionable Cammoo Caves locality for Agathodesmus agnus sp. n.; see Figs 11-13 for other species. Geographic projection, 5° latitude-longitude grid. NSW = New South Wales, NT = Northern Territory, QLD = Queensland, SA = South Australia, TAS = Tasmania, VIC = Victoria, WA = Western Australia.

Figure 11.

Localities for Agathodesmus bonang sp. n. (filled triangles), Agathodesmus carorum sp. n. (open circles), Agathodesmus johnsi Mesibov, 2009 (star), Agathodesmus morwellensis sp. n. (filled squares) and Agathodesmus steeli Silvestri, 1910 (crosses). Mercator projection; ACT = Australian Capital Territory, NSW = New South Wales, VIC = Victoria. Inset shows location of main map.

Figure 13.

Localities in far north Queensland for A Agathodesmus adelphus sp. n. (open circle), Agathodesmus agnus sp. n. (open triangles), Agathodesmus gayundah sp. n. (filled triangle), Agathodesmus hahnensis sp. n. (open squares), Agathodesmus kerensis sp. n. (filled square), Agathodesmus kirrama sp. n. (filled circles), Agathodesmus millaa sp. n. (star) and B Agathodesmus parapholeus sp. n. (open circles), Agathodesmus quintanus sp. n. (crosses), Agathodesmus sagma sp. n. (open squares), Agathodesmus summus sp. n. (open triangles), and Agathodesmus yuccabinensis sp. n. (filled squares). Arrow in A indicates questionable, disjunct locality for Agathodesmus aenigmaticus sp. n. Mercator projections; inset shows location of main maps.