New species of Prosopodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae) from Queensland, Australia

By

Mesibov, Robert

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

190

Pages

33-54

Subjects

Australia , Diplopoda , Haplodesmidae , millipede , Polydesmida , Queensland

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.190.3276

 

Abstract

Prosopodesmus crater sp. n., P. kirrama sp. n. and P. monteithi sp. n. are described from the Wet Tropics of north Queensland. The hothouse species P. panporus Blower & Rundle, 1980 is recorded from rainforest on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula, where it is likely to be native.