Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 87-91 (1996). 
A new species of Samarangopus (Myriapoda: Pauropoda) from 
Papua New Guinea 
U. Scheller 
Haggeboholm, Haggesled, S-53194 Jarp&s, Sweden 
Abstract - The class Pauropoda has been identified for the first time from 
Papua New Guinea. The material belongs to a new species in Samarangopus, 
S. papuensis sp. nov., of the family Eurypauropodidae. The Australian species 
Eurypauropus speciosus Harrison is transferred to the genus Samarangopus. 
INTRODUCTION 
The pauropod fauna of Australasia and 
surrounding islands is relatively uninvestigated 
and very few papers have been published. A few 
haphazard finds have been made from Java 
(Silvestri 1930), Borneo (Scheller 1994), Mindanao, 
Peleliu among the Palau Islands and Guam (Remy 
1957), resulting in 12 species, which is probably 
only a small fraction of the real fauna. 
Thanks to Dr W. F. Humphreys, Western 
Australian Museum, we are now able to add a 
pauropod to the New Guinean fauna, which he 
collected from Baiteta near Madang in equatorial 
northern Papua New Guinea. This specimen is 
found to belong to a new species in the genus 
Samarangopus (Eurypauropodidae). That genus is 
known earlier from some adjacent areas: Java 
(Silvestri 1930), Borneo (Scheller 1994), New 
Caledonia (Remy 1956b, Scheller 1993) and 
probably also from New South Wales as Harrison 
(1914) briefly described Eurypauropus speciosus from 
Lobster Beach, Broken Bay. The latter species is 
here tentatively transferred to Samarangopus: S. 
speciosus (Harrison), comb. nov. 
Provisional list 
Samarangopus: 
of the species 
of the genus 
Species 
Localities 
References 
S. browni Remy 
S. doiinthanonaeus 
New Caledonia 
Remy 1956b 
Scheller 
Thailand 
Scheller 1995 
S. flabrarius Remy 
Madagascar 
Remy 1956a 
S. jacobsoni (Silvestri) 
Java 
Silvestri 1930 
S. molestus Remy 
Mauritius 
Remy 1959 
S. oxypygus Remy 
Reunion 
Remy 1959 
and Rollet 
Madagascar 
Remy and 
Rollet 1960 
S. palearum Scheller 
New Caledonia 
Scheller 1993 
S. papuensis sp. nov. 
Papua 
New Guinea 
This paper 
S. poculifer Scheller 
Thailand 
Scheller 1995 
S. saproxylophilus Remy Madagascar 
Remy 1956a 
S. segniter Scheller 
Borneo 
Scheller 1994 
S. spalhaceus Scheller 
S. speciosus (Harrison) 
S. umbonifer Scheller 
S. umbraculus Scheller 
New Caledonia 
Australia, New 
South Wales 
Thailand 
New Caledonia 
Scheller 1993 
Harrison 1914 
Scheller 1995 
Scheller 1993 
In addition, Remy (1959) described Samarangopus 
sp. from Mauritius and Reunion. 
Because the present author has studied several 
other species occurring in some collections from 
the Australasian region, the genus seems to be rich 
in species there. The above list probably 
enumerates a small fraction only of the species of 
the genus and therefore a useful key can not be 
constructed at present. 
The abbreviations used below follow Hasenhiitl 
(1986), and the sole specimen examined is lodged 
in the Western Australian Museum, Perth (WAM). 
SYSTEMATICS 
Family Eurypauropodidae Ryder 
Subfamily Eurypauropodinae Verhoeff 
Genus Samarangopus Verhoeff 
Samarangopus Verhoeff, 1934: 189. 
Diagnosis 
An Eurypauropodinae genus with 5-segmented 
legs with one main claw and one anterior 
secondary claw; antennal globulus short-stalked 
and the anterior margin of the sternal antennal 
branch shorter than posterior one; anterior 
antennal flagellum F 2 shorter than posterior one F y 
Samarangopus papuensis sp. nov. 
Figures 1-18 
Type material 
Fiolotype 
Adult 9, Baiteta, Madang Province, Papua New 
