Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)
Author
Mesibov, Robert
text
ZooKeys
2018
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.32969
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.32969
1313-2970-827-1
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Talomius
gen. n.
Type species.
Talomius weldensis
sp. n., by present designation.
Name.
Anagram of
"tasm"
from
"Tasmania"
and
"iulo"
from "
Iulomorphidae
"; masculine gender.
Diagnosis.
Distinguished from all other genera of
Iulomorphidae
by the male first legs having a reduced prefemur, but with the four more distal podomeres appearing as in normal walking legs, including a normal claw on the tarsus; and distinguished from the other nine Australian iulomorphid genera by the small size of the gonopods relative to ring 7 diameter, by the strong medial curvature of the coxal process on the anterior gonopod, and by the bare, posteriorly curving apex of the anterior gonopod telopodite terminating in the opening of the prostatic groove.
Description and distribution.
As for the type species.