Description
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As for N. summus, with differences as follows. Male/female approximate measurements: length 12/13 mm, maximum diameter 0.9/1.1 mm, maximum width across paranota 1.2/1.4 mm. Body unpigmented.
Male with head densely setose (Fig. 4E); antennal sockets moderately impressed, separated by ca 2X socket diameter. Antenna (Fig. 2B) slender; antennomere 6 widest; relative antennomere lengths (6,2,3)>5>4. Overall widths of rings 2-4 about equal, increasing slightly from 5 to 7, 8-16 more or less equal, 17 narrower. Ratio of ring length to prozonite width in midbody rings 1.1-1.3 (Figs 3C, 3D). Th ree transverse rows of short setae on metatergite. Paranota on rings 2-4 relatively wide, margins with three broad teeth, each bearing a stout seta. Ozopore small, round, opening laterally just ventral to short eminence at about half ring height close to posterior paranotal corner. Sternites very sparsely setose. Hypoproct broadly convex. Anterior legs (Fig. 2B) not swollen, prefemur slightly expanded dorsally, claw large; relative podomere lengths (tarsus, femur)>prefemur>(postfemur, tibia). Long, tapered setae in place of brush setae on prefemur, femur, postfemur, tibia.
Gonopod telopodite (Figs 5C, 5D) with distal row of pointed, rod-like structures extending to lateral surface of apex, and one small posterior cluster just below apex.
- bibliographic citation
- A new millipede genus and a new species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidea) from southern Tasmania, Australia.
Distribution
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Common in caves in the Junee-Florentine karst northwest of Maydena in south central Tasmania (Fig. 9), to at least 200 m depth.