Taxonomy of Paraplatyarthrus Javidkar and King (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Paraplatyarthridae) with description of five new species from Western Australia, and comments on Australian Trichorhina Budde-Lunde, 1908 (Platyarthridae)
Author
Javidkar, Mohammad
Author
King, Rachael A.
Author
Cooper, Steven J. B.
Author
Humphreys, William F.
Author
Austin, Andrew D.
text
Zootaxa
2017
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3
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journal article
36268
10.11646/zootaxa.4243.3.1
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Paraplatyarthrus subterraneus
Javidkar and King, 2015
Fig. 2
H.
Paraplatyarthrus subterraneus
Javidkar and King, in
Javidkar
et al
. 2015
: 567
.
Type
material.
Holotype
: Male,
WAM
C53623 (BES15525.19),
Laverton Downs Windarra
calcrete,
Eastern
Murchison region
,
Western
Australia
,
Australia
;
28.50282°S
,
122.17726°E
,
13 July 2010
, coll.
W.F. Humphreys
&
S.J.B. Cooper
, deposited in the
Western
Australian Museum.
FIGURE 19.
Paraplatyarthrus pallidus
sp. nov.
, (Holotype, ♂), A, pleopod 1 endopodite and genital papilla; B, pleopod 1 exopodite; C, pleopod 2 endopodite; D, pleopod 2 exopodite; E, pleopod 3 exopodite; F, pleopod 4 exopodite; G, pleopod 5 exopodite. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.
Paratypes
: 5 males (WAM C53624, BES15525.24; WAM C53625, BES15525.16; WAM C53626, BES15525.12; WAM C53627, BES15525.2; WAM C53628, BES15525.3), 1 female (WAM C53629, BES15525.4), BES15525.20 held on SEM stubs (sex unknown); same locality and collectors’ as holotype, all deposited in the Western Australian Museum.
Diagnosis
. Body pale without pigmentation. Eyeless (no ommatidia) (
Fig. 2
H).
Remarks.
Paraplatyarthrus subterraneus
is distinguished from other described
Paraplatyarthrus
species with a combination of characters including a pale body with no pigmentation, no ommatidia in cephalothorax and a delimiting line in maxilla 2. The body length varies between 3.0 and
3.8 mm
. It is restricted to a single calcrete aquifer, Laverton Downs,
Eastern
Murchison region,
Western
Australia
.