A review of the Australian millipede genus Atelomastix (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Iulomorphidae) 2371
Author
Edward, Karen L.
Author
Harvey, Mark S.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-02-25
2371
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1
63
https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2371.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2371.1.1
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Atelomastix lengae
,
sp. nov.
Figs. 8
,
62
,
106, 107
.
Type material:
AUSTRALIA
:
Western Australia
:
holotype
male,
Eyre Range
,
Fitzgerald River National Park
, unburnt gully,
33°50’50”S
,
119°57’07”E
, hand collected under rock,
30 May 2007
,
M.L. Moir
,
M.C. Leng
(
WAM
T
80799)
.
Other material examined:
AUSTRALIA
:
Western Australia
:
1 female
,
Eyre Range
,
Fitzgerald River National Park
, unburnt rock outcrop,
33°51’50”S
,
119°57’32”E
, hand collected under rock,
30 May 2007
,
M.L. Moir
,
M.C. Leng
(
WAM
T
80800)
.
Etymology:
The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Frances Leng who collected the
holotype
and numerous other species of
Atelomastix
in southwestern
Australia
.
Diagnosis:
Atelomastix lengae
differs from all other species as the male gonopod sclerite
c
is barely distally bifurcate, and is generally straight and slightly broadened distally. It has a broad sclerite
b
that does not extend to sclerite
c
and tapers gently to a broad tip distally.
Description:
Male (
holotype
).
Colour: generally dark brown; legs, antennae, mouthparts, lighter brown with distinctly light bands; prozonites dark brown; metazonites dark brown to very pale in preserved specimens.
Body: ca.
42 mm
long and ca.
2.4 mm
wide at collum. With 67 trunk segments, 123 pairs of legs, last 2 segments without legs.
Head: with ca. 52 ocelli (
Fig. 62
), arranged in 7 rows (4: 5: 6: 7: 9: 10: 11).
Gonopods: anterior gonopods (
Figs. 106, 107
) with light to medium sclerotisation, 2.3 times longer than broad; sclerite
a
with swollen base that forms broad, curved distal hood; upper distal face of sclerite
a
with 52 short blunt setae; pseudoflagellum relatively short and partially visible beneath broad distal hood; sclerite
b
broad, tapers gently to a broad distal tip that does not extend to sclerite
c
, with 7 short setae; basal process of sclerite
b
very short, 0.01 times length of main process; sclerite
c
about same height as sclerite
b
, slightly concave on internal surface, with slight indent sub-distally and slightly broadened distally to a very shallow bifurcated tip, with 4 setae; sub-basal setae not visible where sclerites overlap and group of 11 short setae subbasally on sclerite
c
; anterior gonopods inconspicuous, small, with several small setae on interno-lateral face of each gonopod.
Dimensions (mm):
holotype
male: length ca. 42, width ca. 2.4, L/W=17.5; sclerite
a
1.44/0.634, setae 52; sclerite
b
0.506, basal process of sclerite
b
0.014, setae 7; sclerite
c
1.024, setae 4.
Female
. Similar to male, other than sexual characters, and slightly larger.
Distribution and habitat:
This species is only known from
one male
and
one female
from an unburnt gully in the Eyre range, Fitzgerald River National Park (
Fig. 9
). These
two specimens
were found under rocks.