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Issue: Vol. 2571 No. 1: 19 Aug. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-08-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2571.1.3
Page range: 53–61
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 12

Two new millipede genera from northwest Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae)

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 7250
Myriapoda Diplopoda Polydesmida Dalodesmidae Australia Tasmania

Abstract

Setoisenoton pallidus n. gen., n. sp. and Dysmicodesmus jeekeli n. gen., n. sp. occupy small ranges (S. pallidus resembles Notonesiotes aucklandensis Johns, 1970 from the subantarctic Auckland Islands, but differs in gonopod details. D. jeekeli is unusual in the Tasmanian dalodesmid fauna in having basally fused telopodites.

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