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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.93.1255" ID-GBIF-Dataset="dd35ba08-ba38-420b-b587-87cadf95ca17" ID-PMC="PMC3095182" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-93-43" ID-PubMed="21594078" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2011" ModsDocID="1313-2970-93-43" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 93" ModsDocTitle="New species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidea)" checkinTime="1451250465908" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Mesibov, Robert" docDate="2011" docId="C1D07CCDA2B737DB0C498F0DF6DAE3D3" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 93: 43-65" docOrigin="ZooKeys 93" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.93.1255" docTitle="Asphalidesmus magnus Mesibov, 2011, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="5" lastPageNumber="51" masterDocId="FFC8FF90FFB6B879FFE6BD3FFFB5FF87" masterDocTitle="New species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidea)" masterLastPageNumber="66" masterPageNumber="43" pageNumber="49" updateTime="1668168857305" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>New species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidea)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Mesibov, Robert</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2011</mods:date>
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<mods:number>93</mods:number>
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<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.93.1255</mods:url>
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<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.93.1255</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-93-43</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="159364998" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:FB9BD0E1-F23F-46E5-8422-58F4AB8C1830" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C1D07CCDA2B737DB0C498F0DF6DAE3D3" lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="51" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:FB9BD0E1-F23F-46E5-8422-58F4AB8C1830" class="Diplopoda" genus="Asphalidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Asphalidesmus magnus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="6" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnus">Asphalidesmus magnus</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="6" pageNumber="49">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 1D, 1F2C710A, 10B, 10Cmap fig. 12
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="49" type="holotype">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="49">Holotype.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="49">
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Male, Mt Haig, Lamb Range, Qld,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-17.097778">17°05'52"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="145.60251">145°36'09"E</geoCoordinate>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
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0.5 km, 1000 m, 25 February 1997, G. Monteith, QM berlesate 918, rainforest, leaf litter, ex QM S37557, QM S90025.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="49" type="paratypes">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="49">Paratypes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="49">5 males, 5 females, details as for holotype, QM S90026.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="50" pageId="6" pageNumber="49" type="other material">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="49">Other material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="50" pageId="6" pageNumber="49">
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(All from Qld) 2 males, 2 females, Cammoo Caves near Rockhampton (see Distribution),
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-23.166666">23°10'S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="150.46666">150°28'E</geoCoordinate>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
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1 km, 25 October 1976, R.W. Taylor and T.A. Weir, ANIC berlesate 535, dense low closed forest, ANIC 64-000204; 1 male, 1 female, 3 km W by S of Mt Haig, Lamb Range, Qld,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-17.1">17°06'S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="145.56667">145°34'E</geoCoordinate>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
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1 km, 1150 m, 3 April 1984, A. Calder and T.A. Weir, ANIC berlesate 952, rainforest, ANIC 64-000203; 1 male, Lambs Head, 10 km W of Edmonton,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-17.023056">17°01'23"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="145.6425">145°38'33"E</geoCoordinate>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
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0.5 km, 1200 m, 4 December 1988, G. Monteith and G. Thompson
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<pageBreakToken pageId="7" pageNumber="50" start="start">,</pageBreakToken>
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QM berlesate 806, rainforest, sieved litter, QM S90028; 2 males, Vine Creek, Majors Mountain,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-17.682777">17°40'58"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="145.53389">145°32'02"E</geoCoordinate>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
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0.5 km, 1050 m, 5 February 1999, G. Monteith and D. Cook, QM berlesate 987, rainforest, sieved litter, QM S90027.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="50" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="50">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="50">Dorsum distinctly flattened anteriorly; 2 small, rounded, paramedian swellings dorsally on rings 16-18; 3 transverse rows of tubercles on midbody metatergites; gonopod telopodite with posteriorly curving anterior branch and Y-shaped posterior branch directed posterodistally and slightly laterally.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="51" pageId="7" pageNumber="50" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="50">Description.</paragraph>
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Males and females approximately the same size, length ca 5 mm, ring 6 vertical diameter ca 0.6 mm and maximum width ca 1.1 mm. Body strongly tapered from wide head to narrow telson (Fig. 1D); dorsum flattened anteriorly (Figs 1F, 10C); rings 16-18 with 2 small, rounded, paramedian swellings on (meta)tergites (Figs 10A, 10B).
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<pageBreakToken pageId="8" pageNumber="51" start="start">Midbody</pageBreakToken>
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metatergites with 3 transverse rows of tubercles dorsally. Paranota wide (Fig. 1F); anterior and lateral margins in single convex curve, posterior margin straight; 3-4 weakly defined marginal lobes.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="51">Gonopod telopodite (Figs 2C, 7) more or less cylindrical, tapering distally from laterally extended base, with a few strong setae on posterior surface, divided at ca three-quarters telopodite height into anterior and posterior branches. Anterior branch somewhat flattened anteroposteriorly, with the lateral margin extended as rounded triangle basally; branch directed distally but curving posteriorly, the tip spade-like, pointed and slightly thickened. Posterior branch flattened mediolaterally, directed posterodistally and slightly laterally; branch Y-shaped, divided at ca one-half branch length into thin arms, one directed distally and the other laterally, both arms tipped with minute, variably positioned processes. Prostatic groove on anteromedial surface of telopodite, following posterior branch and terminating at tip of distally directed arm.</paragraph>
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<caption pageId="8" pageNumber="51">
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Figure 6.
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<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" genus="Asphalidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Asphalidesmus dorrigensis" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dorrigensis">Asphalidesmus dorrigensis</taxonomicName>
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sp. n., paratype, AM KS61085. Views of gonopods in situ (A) and telopodite tips (B). lab = anterior branch of left gonopod (broken at base, interlaced with right gonopod branches), rab = anterior branch of right gonopod, lapb = anterior process of posterior branch of left gonopod, rapb = anterior process of posterior branch of right gonopod (broken at base, leaning laterally; medial arm bent over due to drying), lppb = posterior process of posterior branch of left gonopod (medial arm bent over due to drying), rppb = posterior process of posterior branch of right gonopod, o = points to process on which prostatic groove opens. Scale bars: A = 0.1 mm, B = 0.05 mm.
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<subSubSection pageId="8" pageNumber="51" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="51">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="51">
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Known from tropical rainforest in far north Queensland and from a single collection near Cammoo Caves in central coastal Queensland (Fig. 12). Cammoo Caves are ca 840 km from the type locality of
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<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" genus="Asphalidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Asphalidesmus magnus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnus">Asphalidesmus magnus</taxonomicName>
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, but the four specimens from the Caves differ from the types mainly in being marginally larger; the gonopods are almost identical. If the specimens are indeed from forest near the Caves, then
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<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" genus="Asphalidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Asphalidesmus magnus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnus">Asphalidesmus magnus</taxonomicName>
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may have been accidentally introduced to the area from far north Queensland. This record needs to be checked by further sampling in the Cammoo Caves area.
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<subSubSection pageId="8" pageNumber="51" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="51">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="51">
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Latin magnus,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘large’">'large'</normalizedToken>
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, the name also containing Latin agnus,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘lamb’">'lamb'</normalizedToken>
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.
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<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" genus="Asphalidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Asphalidesmus magnus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnus">Asphalidesmus magnus</taxonomicName>
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is the larger of the two
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<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" genus="Asphalidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Asphalidesmus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Asphalidesmus</taxonomicName>
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species found on the Lamb Range.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="8" pageNumber="51" type="remarks">
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="51">Remarks.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="51">
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<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" genus="Asphalidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Asphalidesmus magnus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnus">Asphalidesmus magnus</taxonomicName>
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can coil tightly in a spiral.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="51">
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The dorsal flattening seen in this species (Figs 1F, 10C) contrasts strongly with the smoothly rounded cross-section of the type species
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<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" genus="Asphalidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Asphalidesmus leae" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leae">Asphalidesmus leae</taxonomicName>
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(Figs 1E, 10D). Further, limbus elements in
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<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" genus="Asphalidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Asphalidesmus magnus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnus">Asphalidesmus magnus</taxonomicName>
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are noticeably longer and more slender than limbus elements in the other nine
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<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" genus="Asphalidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Asphalidesmus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Asphalidesmus</taxonomicName>
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spp. (Fig. 11) As the difference is only detectable at very high magnification, and because elements vary in length and width around the circumference of a body ring, I am reluctant to include this character state in the species diagnosis.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="51">Latitude/longitude data in italics are from the QM collection database.</paragraph>
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