Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)

By

Mesibov, Robert

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

827

Pages

1-17

Subjects

Australia , Cambalidae , Diplopoda , Iulomorphidae , Spirostreptida , Tasmania

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.32969

 

Abstract

The Southern Hemisphere cambaloid millipede genera are here assigned or re-assigned to the families Cambalidae Bollman, 1893 and Iulomorphidae Verhoeff, 1924.Tasmanocambalais erected for the three Tasmanian cambalids,T.greenigen. n., sp. n.(type species),T.tasmanicasp. n.andT.taylorisp. n.The new genus is distinguished by a thin, transverse tab at the tip of the anterior gonopod telopodite with a comb of setae immediately behind the tab. The iulomorphidTalomiusweldensisgen. n., sp. n.is described from a single site in Tasmania’s southern mountain district. The new species is unusual among the Australian Iulomorphidae in having a fully-developed, ambulatory leg 1 in the male, and small, compact gonopods.