Lophoturus queenslandicus Verhoeff, 1924 was the first lophoproctid penicillate millipede collected from Ravenshoe, Australia (Condé 1979). Ravenshoe is a town in north-east Queensland previously known as Cedar Creek, where the type specimen of L. queenslandicus was collected.

L. queenslandicus has 13 pairs of legs, 10 segments and a telson; 9 pleural projections; body covered with barbate trichomes; tergal trichomes form 2 latero-posterior groups with a few trichomes extending anteriorly and these groups are separated by a gap; Chaetotaxy with pubescent oval setae; simple claw; the ornamental trichomes with 8a, 1b and 2c (c1 and c3); labrum with setose surface and 0 to 1 pairs of linguiform processes; the 6^th antennal article with 3 thick sensilla (Condé 1979).