The millipede genus Antichiropus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), part 3: species of the Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia
Author
Car, Catherine A.
Author
Harvey, Mark S.
Author
Hillyer, Mia J.
Author
Huey, Joel A.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-06-17
4617
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journal article
26472
10.11646/zootaxa.4617.1.1
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Antichiropus filiolus
Car
,
n. sp.
(
Figs 14
A–E, 16)
ZooBank:
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Type material examined.
Australia
:
Western Australia
:
holotype
male (badly damaged),
Flinders
, ca.
100 km
NW. of
Tom Price
,
22°10’34.2”S
,
117°28’09.9”E
,
4 April 2011
,
stygofauna net
,
J.S. Cocking
and
M.K. Curran
(WAM T116433)
FIGURE 14.
Antichiropus filiolus
Car,
n. sp.
, holotype male (
WAM T116433
): A–B, habitus:
A
, lateral view;
B
, dorsal view; C–E, left gonopod:
C
, posterior view;
D
, medial view;
E
, lateral view. Anterior view not available.
Abbreviations
: F, femorite; MFP, main femoral process; PF, prefemur; prof, prolongation of femorite; S, solenomere; sp1 and 2, solenomere processes1 and 2.
Scale bars
: A = 2 mm; B = 0.5 mm; C–E = 0.5 mm.
Diagnosis.
This species is minute compared with all other species with a short, simple gonopod.
Description.
Male
holotype
:
Body
ca.
10 mm
long; midbody ring ca. <
1 mm
wide, with lightly beaded waist, metazonite and prozonite of similar width. The only specimen pale and translucent,
Colour
true colour unknown (
Fig 14A
): leg colour slightly darker. No paranota (
Fig 14B
).
Sternites
without obvious processes/tubercles, sternal lamella narrow, rounded. Leg coxal processes absent. Anterior spiracles at midbody tiny, indistinct.
Head
smooth without noticeable sculpturing; frons with few setae; face narrow, maximum width ca.
3x
the distance between antennal sockets; sockets separated by ca.
2x
width of socket.
Antennae
of moderate length, reaching to ring 2, clavate.
Collum
(badly damaged) much shorter than head (in lateral view) (
Fig 14A
).
Gonopod
short, reaching ring 6; coxa (C) upright, short; prefemur (PF) much shorter than femorite; femorite (F) 3/5 acropodite length, upright, narrow at base, thickening abruptly towards apex; main femoral process (MFP) 1/3 femorite length, narrow, pointed; second femoral process (fp1) absent; prolongation of femorite (prof), narrow, upright, pointed; solenomere (S) short, forming small circle, thinner than femorite, generally of similar thickness along length, narrowing 2/3 along its length to broaden slightly again at its tip; solenomere tip asymmetrical with slight point; solenomere process (sp1) at solenomere tip, tiny, pointed; second solenomere process (sp2) near solenomere tip, broad, jagged (
Figs 14
C–E).
Female:
unknown.
Distribution.
This species is known from only one site, situated north-west of the town of Tom Price (
Fig 17
).
Etymology.
This species is very small, with simple gonopods (Latin, noun,
filiolus
, little son).