A new genus and species of narrow-range millipede (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia

By

Mesibov, Robert
Rodriguez, Juanita

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

966

Pages

1--8

Subjects

Australia , Dalodesmidae , Diplopoda , Polydesmida , Tasmania

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.966.56308

 

Abstract

Kebodesmus zonariusgen. nov. et sp. nov. is only known from a small area on the Great Western Tiers in northern Tasmania, Australia, and like species of Paredrodesmus Mesibov, 2003 has no detectable paranota on the diplosegments. The gonopod telopodite of the new species is divided into a large, lateral, cowl-like structure, a solenomere and a medial branch with three processes.