A new Pauropoda from Papua New Guinea 
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later years with different types of automatic 
apparatus have yielded much material which has 
doubled the number of species from seven to 
fourteen (Scheller 1993,1994, 1995). The genus does 
not seem to occur outside of the tropics where its 
known range includes Thailand and several islands 
from Madagascar to New Caledonia. 
The new species may be most close to S. 
umbonifer Scheller (1995) from Thailand. These two 
species are generally alike and have specific 
characters which do not occur in other species, viz. 
the occurrence of a collar on at least some of the 
large protuberances of the tergites and the specific 
shape of the fungiform protuberances there. Good 
distinguishing characters are the morphology of 
the tergites 1I-V (with low sublateral ridges 
lengthways in S. papuensis, with many distinct 
depressions on each tergite in S. umbonifer, the 
shape of the large marginal protuberances of the 
tergites (more or less campanulate with square 
ends, not leaf-shaped), the shape of the sternal 
antennal branch s (wide and cylindrical, not 
distinctly narrower in distal part) and the shape of 
some setae (those on coxa and trochanter of leg 9 
pointed, not cylindrical; pygidial a 3 cylindrical and 
blunt, not tapering and pointed). 
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