identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
CD79AFC2667D56B38C4093F7D9FBD012.text	CD79AFC2667D56B38C4093F7D9FBD012.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Araneopedis bogong Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Araneopedis bogong sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 3, 15 A</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Male, Bogong High Plains (Vic), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=147.3218&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.8725" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 147.3218/lat -36.8725)">0.37 km E by N of junction of Bogong High Plains Road and Big River Firetrail, site HS 03-C-L 2</a>, -36.8725, 147.3218 ± 25 m, 1645–1665 m, coll. Nicholas Porch, 2024-04 - 22, 1 m 2 litter sample from closed shrubby snow gum woodland, NMV K 16482 . Paratypes. 3 F, details as for holotype, NMV K 16481; 1 M in 95 % EtOH, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=147.3199&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.873" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 147.3199/lat -36.873)">0.2 km E by N of junction of Bogong High Plains Road and Big River Firetrail, site HS 03-C-L 1</a>, -36.8730, 147.3199 ± 25 m, 1620–1640 m, NMV K 16480 ; 1 M, 8 F, same details, NMV K 16483; 1 M, same details but Dinner Plain area, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=147.2187&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.0264" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 147.2187/lat -37.0264)">0.51 km SSW of JB Plain carpark, site HS 07-C-L 3</a>, -37.0264, 147.2187 ± 25 m, 1650 m, 2024-04 - 14, closed grassy / shrubby snow gum woodland, NMV K 16484 .</p><p>Additional material.</p><p>None.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Adult males distinguished from Araneopedis buffalo sp. nov. by the similar sizes of posterior rings vs enlarged rings; and from other species of Araneopedis gen. nov. by the solenomere flattened and with a wide distal-facing concavity.</p><p>Description.</p><p>As for the genus, with the following details. Male / female length ca 9.0 / 9.0 mm, maximum midbody width 0.8 / 0.8 mm, midbody metatergite width ca 1.4 × prozonite width.</p><p>Telopodite base with upturned basal margin (Fig. 3 A), sparsely setose. Division of telopodite into lateral and medial branches and solenomere at ca 1 / 2 telopodite height; telopodite bulging posteriorly below division. Lateral branch (Fig. 3 B) a little taller than medial branch, narrow, flattened mediolaterally, bowed medially, tip curving posteriorly and pointed, lateral margin with triangular extension at ca 3 / 4 branch height. Medial branch widening from base and broadly truncate, concave posteriorly. Solenomere mediolaterally flattened, extending distally, then curving anterodistally, creating wide distal-facing concavity in profile, then tapering and curving posteriorly and terminating in posteriorly directed point with the opening of the prostatic groove.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Noun in apposition, for the Bogong High Plains, from which most of the known specimens were collected.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Collected from two locality clusters near Dinner Plain and east of Falls Creek in the Victorian mountains (Fig. 15 A), a linear range of ca 19 km, in subalpine woodland from 1620 to 1665 m. Possibly parapatric with A. porchi sp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CD79AFC2667D56B38C4093F7D9FBD012	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
A2E037D63F2D5B06862DDD30774DE1E2.text	A2E037D63F2D5B06862DDD30774DE1E2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Araneopedis buffalo Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Araneopedis buffalo sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 4, 5 A, 15 A</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Male, Mt Buffalo (Vic), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.8079&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.7281" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.8079/lat -36.7281)">0.5 km SE by E of Mt Buffalo Park Office, site HS 15-C-L 1</a>, -36.7281, 146.8079 ± 25 m, 1380–1400 m, coll. Nicholas Porch, 2024-04 - 13, 1 m 2 litter sample from closed shrubby subalpine woodland, NMV K 16486 . Paratypes. 2 M, 5 F, details as for holotype but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.7884&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.7655" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.7884/lat -36.7655)">0.3 km ESE of Cresta Valley carpark entrance, site HS 13-O-L 3</a>, -36.7655, 146.7884 ± 25 m, 1465–1485 m, open herb-rich subalpine grassland, NMV K 16488 ; 1 M in 95 % EtOH, same details, NMV K 16485; 2 M, 4 F, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.8059&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.7274" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.8059/lat -36.7274)">0.29 km SE of Mt Buffalo Park Office, site HS 15-C-L 2</a>, -36.7274, 146.8059 ± 25 m, 1370 m, closed shrubby subalpine woodland, NMV K 16487 .</p><p>Additional material.</p><p>2 M from two other sites. See Suppl. material 1 for details.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Adult males distinguished from other species of Araneopedis gen. nov. by the posterior rings being enlarged vs of similar size to anterior rings (Fig. 5). Distinguished from A. bogong sp. nov. by the lack of a wide distal-facing concavity in the solenomere; from A. porchi sp. nov. and A. dargo sp. nov. by the terminal division of the lateral branch of the gonopod telopodite; and from A. gibbae sp. nov. by much larger size and presence of a terminal, posteriorly directed spine on the medial branch.</p><p>Description.</p><p>As for the genus, with the following details. Male / female length ca 9.0 / 8.5 mm, maximum midbody width 0.9 / 0.8, midbody metatergite width 1.3 × prozonite width.</p><p>Telopodite base with upturned basal margin (Fig. 4 A), sparsely setose. Lateral branch arising lower on telopodite than medial branch + solenomere at ca 1 / 2 telopodite height, somewhat flattened mediolaterally, curving anterodistally, divided at ca 1 / 3 branch height into medial process and shorter lateral process with two posteriorly directed subapical teeth; medial process expanded medially as rounded tab anterior to medial branch tab, then extending distally with thin, mediolaterally flattened, pointed apex. Medial branch curving anterodistally and expanding medially as rounded tab with posteriorly directed spine arising medially on posterior surface; distal to expanded section curving posteriorly, apex truncate and extending anterolaterally as short blunt spine and posteromedially as longer, thinner spine. Lateral and medial branches reaching same height overall. Solenomere on posterior telopodite surface, thin and subcylindrical, curving first anteriorly, then distolaterally, the tip curving posterodistally; prostatic groove opening at end of tip. On anterior surface of telopodite, a mediolaterally flattened, subquadrate tab arising at level of medial branch origin, directed anteriorly.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Noun in apposition, for Mt Buffalo.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Collected near Mt Buffalo and Mt Buller in the Victorian mountains (Fig. 15 A), in alpine and subalpine grassland and woodland from 1370 to 1740 m.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>This species is very similar to A. gibbae sp. nov. in gonopod structure, but the male is substantially larger (Fig. 5 A) and its posterior rings are proportionally larger than its anterior ones. The medial branch of the gonopod telopodite also differs from that of A. gibbae sp. nov. in having a terminal, posteriorly directed spine rather than a subterminal one. Females of this species are substantially smaller than males from the same site.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A2E037D63F2D5B06862DDD30774DE1E2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
E5F9FEC08C045290B5F44C8C0F3173B3.text	E5F9FEC08C045290B5F44C8C0F3173B3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Araneopedis dargo Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Araneopedis dargo sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 6, 15 A</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Male, Dargo High Plains (Vic), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=147.1782&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.1151" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 147.1782/lat -37.1151)">King Spur Track, E of Dargo High Plains Road, site HS 11-O-L 2</a>, -37.1151, 147.1782 ± 25 m, 1525–1545 m, coll. Nicholas Porch, 2024-04 - 14, 1 m 2 litter sample from open shrubby subalpine grassland, NMV K 16492 . Paratypes. 3 M, 7 F, details as for holotype, NMV K 16494; 1 M in 95 % EtOH, same details, NMV K 16493; 2 M, 16 F, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=147.1788&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.1162" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 147.1788/lat -37.1162)">site HS 11-O-L 3</a>, -37.1162, 147.1788 ± 25 m, open grassy subalpine shrubland NMV K 16491 .</p><p>Additional material.</p><p>None.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Adult males distinguished from A. buffalo sp. nov. by the posterior rings being of similar size to anterior rings vs enlarged; and from A. buffalo sp. nov. and other species of Araneopedis gen. nov. by the medial branch of the gonopod telopodite being much taller than the lateral branch.</p><p>Description.</p><p>As for the genus, with the following details. Male / female length ca 8.5 / 8.0 mm, maximum midbody width 0.75 / 0.7. 5 mm, midbody metatergite width ca 1.4 × prozonite width.</p><p>Telopodite base with upturned basal margin (Fig. 6 A, B), sparsely setose with long setae. Proximal portion of telopodite bulbous, expanded posteriorly. Lateral branch arising near telopodite base, extending distally as strap-like structure with near-constant width, tilted medially to stand just posterior to medial branch, the tip curving posteriorly and bluntly pointed. Medial branch similarly strap-like but thicker and longer than lateral branch, somewhat sinuous in outline, the apex bent laterally and tapering to blunt point distal to tip of lateral branch; subapically on anterolateral edge with blunt, spine-projection tightly curving posterodistally. Solenomere arising from top of bulbous telopodite section at ca 1 / 2 telopodite height, directed anteromedially, flattened, the truncate distal edge with short pointed tooth posteriorly and longer, spine-like extension curving distolaterally and terminating with opening of prostatic groove. Prostatic groove running along anterior edge of solenomere.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Noun in apposition, for the Dargo High Plains.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Collected on the Dargo High Plains in the Victorian mountains (Fig. 15 A), in subalpine grassland and shrubland from 1525 to 1545 m.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E5F9FEC08C045290B5F44C8C0F3173B3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
91551C21BD885E8684187B8849829B65.text	91551C21BD885E8684187B8849829B65.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Araneopedis gibbae Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Araneopedis gibbae sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 5 B, 7, 15 A</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Male, Howitt Plains (Vic), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.6779&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.2045" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.6779/lat -37.2045)">0.19 km W by N of Mount Howitt carpark, site HS 22-C-L 3</a>, -37.2045, 146.6779 ± 25 m, 1610–1630 m, coll. Nicholas Porch and Heloise Gibb, 2024-03 - 01, 1 m 2 litter sample from closed shrubby subalpine woodland, NMV K 16495 . Paratypes. 3 M, 3 F, details as for holotype, NMV K 16497; 1 M in 95 % EtOH, same details, NMV K 16496 .</p><p>Additional material.</p><p>None.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Adult males distinguished from A. buffalo sp. nov. by the posterior rings being of similar size to anterior rings vs enlarged, and by the much smaller body size; from A. dargo sp. nov. by the lateral and medial branches of the gonopod telopodite being equally tall vs lateral branch much shorter than medial branch; from A. porchi sp. nov. by the divided vs undivided lateral branch; and from A. bogong sp. nov. by the lack of a wide distal-facing concavity in the solenomere.</p><p>Description.</p><p>As for the genus, with the following details. Male / female length ca 7 / 7 mm, maximum midbody width 0.6 / 0.7 mm, midbody metatergite width ca 1.3 × prozonite width.</p><p>Telopodite base with upturned basal margin (Fig. 7 A), sparsely setose. Lateral branch arising lower on telopodite than medial branch + solenomere at ca 1 / 2 telopodite height, somewhat flattened mediolaterally, curving anterodistally, divided at ca 1 / 2 branch height into medial process and shorter lateral process with two posteriorly directed subapical teeth; medial process expanded medially as rounded tab anterior to medial branch tab, then extending distally with thin, mediolaterally flattened, pointed apex. Medial branch extending distally, then curving anterodistally and expanding into bulbous section with posteriorly directed spine on posterior surface; distal to bulbous section tapering and curving laterally, with a second posteriorly directed spine on posterior surface. Lateral and medial branches reaching same height overall. Solenomere on posterior telopodite surface, thin and subcylindrical, curving first anteriorly, then distolaterally, the tip curving posterodistally; prostatic groove opening at end of tip. On anterior surface of telopodite, a mediolaterally flattened, subquadrate tab arising at level of medial branch origin, directed anteriorly with distal corner projecting.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Noun in the genitive case, in honour of Heloise Gibb (Deakin University), co-collector of this species. Gibb is a community ecologist with a strong interest in invertebrate conservation.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Collected near Mt Howitt in the Victorian mountains (Fig. 15 A), in subalpine woodland from 1610 to 1630 m.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>This species is very similar to A. buffalo sp. nov. in gonopod structure, but the male is substantially smaller (Fig. 5 A, B) and the posterior rings are not proportionally larger than the anterior rings. The medial branch of the gonopod telopodite also differs from that of A. buffalo sp. nov. in having a subterminal, posteriorly directed spine rather than a terminal one.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/91551C21BD885E8684187B8849829B65	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
A91EEB5F18D55952B8AECC6DABE5BBD2.text	A91EEB5F18D55952B8AECC6DABE5BBD2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Araneopedis Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Araneopedis gen. nov.</p><p>Type species.</p><p>Araneopedis porchi sp. nov., by present designation.</p><p>Other assigned species.</p><p>Araneopedis bogong sp. nov., A. buffalo sp. nov., A. dargo sp. nov., A. gibbae sp. nov.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Gonopod telopodite split at 1 / 3 to 1 / 2 height into large, erect, similarly sized, lateral and medial branches, with a smaller, shorter, separate, posteromedial solenomere. The only other Australasian dalodesmid with a gonopod split into similarly sized branches with a separate solenomere is Paurodesmus sjoestedti (Verhoeff, 1924) (Mesibov 2008 b), but in that species the solenomere is nearly as large as the medial and lateral branches and arises basally, rather than at ca 1 / 2 telopodite height.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Small dalodesmids ca 7–9 mm long with body plan head + 19 rings (including telson). Male colour in alcohol pale brownish-yellow, darker on head, distally on antennae and marginally on tergites and metatergites. Head with vertex sparsely setose, frons and clypeus setose; vertigial sulcus reaching ca 1 / 2 way to level of line between top of antennal sockets. Sockets separated by ca 2 × socket diameter. Antenna almost reaching tergite 3 when manipulated. Relative antennomere lengths (6, 3)&gt; 2&gt; (4, 5), 6 widest. Relative tergite widths 6&gt; 5&gt; 4&gt; 3&gt; 2&gt; collum; rings 6–16 subequal in width, 17 and 18 narrower. Collum much narrower than head, ovoid in dorsal view, corner rounded. Paranotal margin on ring 2 lower than ring 3 margin; large pit ventrally under ring 2 paranotum. Midbody paranotal margin at ca 2 / 3 ring height, level; paranotum with anterior corner gently convex, laterally very slightly convex and slightly wider behind, with a few short marginal setae laterally and posteriorly; posterior margin more or less straight; posterior corner slightly projecting on last few rings. Metatergites with 3 transverse rows of low bumps carrying short setae where not abraded; anterior row of bumps narrowest, posterior row widest. Limbus an irregular row of blunt doubled spines. Pore formula normal; ozopore opening dorsally at posterolateral corner of paranotum. Epiproct extending a little beyond anal valves, sides slightly concave, apex truncate; spinnerets in square array. Hypoproct trapezoidal. Sternites slightly wider than long, impressions shallow, transverse impression a little deeper than longitudinal impression. Spiracles small, round or slightly ovoid, on diplosegments with posterior spiracle between leg bases. Length of midbody leg ca 1.5–1.7 × midbody ring diameter. Relative podomere lengths tarsus &gt;&gt; (prefemur, femur) &gt;&gt; (postfemur, tibia); tarsus very slightly curved. Anterior legs somewhat swollen, prefemur and femur arched dorsally. Numerous sphaerotrichomes on anterior leg tarsus, tibia; sphaerotrichomes with pointed shafts strongly declined and with flattened globular bases. Brush setae on prefemur and femur, tapering to blunt points, often curving proximally. Gonopore opening distomedially on leg 2 coxa. Aperture transversely ovoid, ca 1 / 2 width of ring 7 prozonite, rim projecting a little posterolaterally. Retracted gonopod telopodites reaching just past leg 6. Ring 6 sternite excavate with short setal brushes laterally, supporting retracted telopodites. Telopodites erect, closely appressed, divided into lateral branch, medial branch and posteromedial solenomere.</p><p>Female closely similar to male, with shorter legs; epigynum slightly raised, subrectangular; cyphopods not examined in any species.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Latin aranea + pedis, “spider-foot”. The well-separated lateral and medial branches on the gonopod telopodite together with the smaller posteromedial solenomere remind me of the two principal claws and smaller median claw on the tarsus of a web-building spider. Gender masculine.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>The five known species of Araneopedis gen. nov. are closely similar in overall appearance and are geographically clustered in the Victorian mountains, with a known genus range of ca 3500 km 2 (Fig. 15 A).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A91EEB5F18D55952B8AECC6DABE5BBD2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
58DE54939B3E5C379873D08DC7FFCA1B.text	58DE54939B3E5C379873D08DC7FFCA1B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Araneopedis porchi Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Araneopedis porchi sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 1, 2, 15 A</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Male, Bogong High Plains, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=147.2534&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.8823" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 147.2534/lat -36.8823)">Pretty Valley Road, 1.2 km SE of Mt McKay, site HS 01-C-L 1</a>, -36.8823, 147.2534 ± 25 m, 1725–1745 m, coll. Nicholas Porch, 2024-04 - 22, 1 m 2 litter sample from closed shrubby snow gum woodland, NMV K 16475 . Paratypes. 6 M, 11 F, details as for holotype, NMV K 16476; 1 M, same details but site HS 01-C-P 1, pitfall sample, NMV K 16477; 8 M, 11 F, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=147.2537&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.8824" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 147.2537/lat -36.8824)">1.25 km SE of Mt McKay, site HS 01-C-L 2</a>, -36.8824, 147.2537 ± 25 m, 1730–1750 m, 1 m 2 litter sample, NMV K 16465 ; 1 M in 95 % EtOH, same details, NMV K 16466; 5 M, 5 F, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=147.2539&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.8828" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 147.2539/lat -36.8828)">1.3 km SE of Mt McKay, site HS 01-C-L 3</a>, -36.8828, 147.2539 ± 25 m, 1735–1755 m, NMV K 16474 .</p><p>Additional material.</p><p>51 M, 64 F, 1 J from nine other sites. See Suppl. material 1 for details.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Adult males distinguished from Araneopedis buffalo sp. nov. by the similar sizes of posterior rings vs enlarged rings; from A. buffalo sp. nov. and A. gibbae sp. nov. by the undivided vs divided lateral branch; from A. dargo sp. nov. by the equally tall lateral and medial branches vs much taller medial branch; and from A. bogong sp. nov. by the simply curved solenomere vs solenomere with a wide distal-facing concavity.</p><p>Description.</p><p>As for the genus, with the following details. Male / female length ca 7 / 7 mm, maximum midbody width 0.6 / 0.6 mm, midbody metatergite width 1.5 × prozonite width.</p><p>Telopodite (Fig. 1) with basal margin upturned. Telopodite erect, bulging posteriorly at ca 1 / 4 telopodite height, sparsely setose posteriorly at base and posterolaterally, divided at ca 1 / 2 telopodite height into lateral and medial branches of equal height. Lateral branch (Fig. 1) somewhat flattened anteroposteriorly, C-shaped with concavity on posterior side, tip directed posteriorly and bluntly pointed. Medial branch with rounded shoulder laterally at base, bent a little laterally before extending distally, widening slightly and bent posteriorly at apex, the tip with blunt tooth at lateral corner. Solenomere arising posterior to telopodite division, expanded posteriorly, curving laterally and flattening mediolaterally, the posterior edge forming a rounded triangle, then tapering strongly and bending posteriorly, the tip pointed posteriorly below lateral and medial branch tips. Prostatic groove running on medial surface of telopodite and along anterior edge of solenomere to open at solenomere tip.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Noun in the genitive case, in honour of Nicholas Porch (Deakin University), principal investigator for the Hermon Slade Foundation project in which this and other new millipede species were collected.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Collected from two locality clusters near Mt Hotham and Mt McKay in the Victorian mountains (Fig. 15 A) with a linear range of ca 16 km, in alpine and subalpine grassland and woodland from 1725 to 1860 m. Possibly parapatric with A. bogong sp. nov.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>Although the live colouring of A. porchi sp. nov. is currently unknown, specimens that were pitfall-trapped in propylene glycol are all almost uniformly darker brown (Fig. 2 B). Propylene glycol may have stabilised colouring that was partially lost in the ethanol into which litter specimens were collected.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/58DE54939B3E5C379873D08DC7FFCA1B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
DB2244F332145C26B7393AA3459AAE97.text	DB2244F332145C26B7393AA3459AAE97.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cernethia dysmica Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Cernethia dysmica sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 8, 15 B</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Male, Kosciuszko National Park (NSW), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=148.3334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.428" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 148.3334/lat -36.428)">0.34 km W of summit of Mt Guthrie, site HS 39-C-L 2</a>, -36.4280, 148.3334 ± 25 m, 1880 m, 2025-02 - 09, coll. Nicholas Porch and Aidan Fitt, 1 m 2 litter sample from shrubby subalpine snow gum woodland, NMV K 16501 . Paratypes. 1 M, 5 F, 11 J, same details, NMV K 16502; 2 M, 1 F, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=148.3338&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.4275" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 148.3338/lat -36.4275)">0.31 km W by N of summit of Mt Guthrie, site HS 39-C-L 1</a>, -36.4275, 148.3338 ± 25 m, 1875 m, NMV K 15990 .</p><p>Additional material.</p><p>2 M, 6 F, 10 J from four other sites. See Suppl. material 1 for details.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Solenomere with medial portion directed anteromedially in Cernethia dysmica sp. nov., directed distally in C. inopinata; small, finger-like, posterobasally directed process near telopodite division in C. inopinata lacking in C. dysmica sp. nov. Medial process of telopodite more or less straight in C. inopinata, sinuous in C. dysmica sp. nov.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Males and females as for C. inopinata, including colour pattern in alcohol (Fig. 8 A); length ca 14–15 mm. Gonopod telopodite (Fig. 8 B left, C) erect, subcylindrical, tapering from base, divided at ca 1 / 2 telopodite height into mediolaterally flattened, lateral solenomere and medial branch. Solenomere divided near apex; lateral portion carrying prostatic groove, medial portion short, finger-like, directed anteromedially; lateral portion with very small spine-like process directed posterolaterally, sometimes broken off; solenomere tip rounded and slightly expanded posteriorly. Medial branch of telopodite flattened mediolaterally, directed distolaterally, then sinuously curving distomedially, with small tooth on anterior edge at ca 1 / 3 branch height; medial branch terminating just distal to solenomere tip. Prostatic groove on medial surface of telopodite, running between telopodite branches and following solenomere to tip.</p><p>Female a little shorter than male, stouter and with thinner legs; epigynum elevated medially; cyphopods not examined.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Collected in subalpine woodland at 1590 to 1880 m, at several localities from Dead Horse Gap to Rennix Gap in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, a linear range of ca 20 km (Fig. 15 B).</p><p>Name.</p><p>Adjective from Greek dysmikos, “ western ”. This species was found west of the type locality for C. inopinata .</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>The two Cernethia species are very similar and can only be distinguished by inspection of the gonopod telopodite of a mature male. Like C. inopinata, C. dysmica sp. nov. has a powerful defensive secretion whose smell persists in alcohol-preserved material.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DB2244F332145C26B7393AA3459AAE97	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
3EEBC1C20E4152BA950289CA8F068884.text	3EEBC1C20E4152BA950289CA8F068884.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cernethia inopinata Mesibov 2015	<div><p>Cernethia inopinata Mesibov, 2015</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>3 M, 3 F, 45 J from three sites in Namadgi National Park (ACT); 24 M, 44 F, 15 J from a single site in the Dinner Plain area (VIC) (Fig. 15 B). See Suppl. material 1 for details.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>The type and previously known localities for C. inopinata (open circles in Fig. 15 B) are in a cluster near Brown Mountain in eastern NSW. The new Namadgi National Park locality is ca 135 km to the northwest, but the new Dinner Plain locality in Victoria is more than 200 km southwest from the other localities. The Victorian records are also strange in that 83 C. inopinata specimens were collected in litter and pitfall samples at only one of the three HS 08 sites (L / P 3). At the other two HS 08 sites, ca 250 m to the west, other millipede species were collected but not C. inopinata .</p><p>A likely explanation for these results is that C. inopinata has been accidentally introduced in the Dinner Plain area. Site HS 08-O-L / P 3 is close to a major tourist road (Great Alpine Road) and is ca 1 km west of Dinner Plain village, which has a cluster of holiday houses and a small hotel. It would be interesting to sample the Dinner Plain area in future to define the range limits of the local C. inopinata population and monitor any range expansion.</p><p>If C. inopinata was introduced via the Great Alpine Road, it may also have been introduced at the type and nearby localities, which are close to the Snowy Mountains Highway, and at the Namadgi National Park site, which is close to the Mt Franklin Road. The original range of this species is thus uncertain.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3EEBC1C20E4152BA950289CA8F068884	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
83AD387D8F855DCF849BFA530EE42843.text	83AD387D8F855DCF849BFA530EE42843.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cernethia Mesibov 2015	<div><p>Genus Cernethia Mesibov, 2015</p><p>Cernethia Mesibov 2015: 142.</p><p>Type species.</p><p>Cernethia inopinata Mesibov, 2015 by original designation.</p><p>Other included species.</p><p>C. dysmica sp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/83AD387D8F855DCF849BFA530EE42843	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
A5EFEFE241705912AB4E83AA367B3FAB.text	A5EFEFE241705912AB4E83AA367B3FAB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dibologonus major Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Dibologonus major sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 9 B, 11, 16 A</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Male, Baw Baw National Park (Vic), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.3346&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8368" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.3346/lat -37.8368)">0.5 km NNE of Mt St Gwinear carpark, site NP 23-18</a>, -37.8368, 146.3346 ± 25 m, 1270 m, coll. Nicholas Porch, 2023-03 - 15, 2 m 2 litter sample from riparian cool temperate rainforest, NMV K 16008 . Paratypes. 2 M, details as for holotype, NMV K 16010; 1 M in 95 % EtOH, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.3456&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8163" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.3456/lat -37.8163)">Mt St Gwinear Road, 1.1 km WNW of junction with Thomson Valley Road, site NP 23-20</a>, -37.8163, 146.3456 ± 25 m, 1035 m, wet sclerophyll forest, NMV K 16009 .</p><p>Additional material.</p><p>None.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Much larger than D. minor sp. nov. and D. oedipus sp. nov. Solenomere with apex expanded vs not expanded in D. sladei sp. nov.; the major telopodite division into medial branch and solenomere at ca 1 / 3 telopodite height vs 2 / 3 height in D. minor sp. nov.; solenomere obscuring medial branch vs well-separated from medial branch in D. oedipus sp. nov.</p><p>Description.</p><p>As for the genus, with the following details. Male colour in alcohol pale yellow, sometimes with fine reddish-brown speckling at collum and paranotal margins. Length ca 13 mm, maximum midbody diameter 1.6 mm. Antenna reaching tergite 3 when manipulated dorsally; relative antennomere lengths 3&gt; (2, 6)&gt; (4, 5); 6 widest. Metatergites with posterior corners projecting a little, more on rings 14–17. Midbody leg ca 1.4 × ring diameter. Brush setae (Fig. 11 A) dense, tapering to point curving distally on coxa / trochanter, prefemur, femur, with a few on postfemur, without mid-height notch; sphaerotrichomes (Fig. 11 B) on postfemur, tibia and tarsus with flattened globular base and tapering shaft, the shaft declined distally and flattened.</p><p>Gonopod telopodites (Figs 9 B, 11 C) straight, almost reaching legpair 4 when retracted, setose posterolaterally to ca 1 / 3 telopodite height. Telopodite divided at ca 1 / 2 height into medial branch and solenomere. Medial branch gradually tapering, divided near base into medial and lateral processes tapering to points, the lateral process a little longer. Solenomere gently curving medially near base, divided at ca 3 / 4 telopodite height into posteromedial and anterolateral processes. Posteromedial process stout, pointed, terminating below other telopodite processes. Anterolateral process subcylindrical, expanding near tip and divided into a stout, pointed, lateral subprocess and a medial subprocess curving medially towards the lateral subprocess tip, and with small subapical tooth curving posterodistally and carrying the termination of the prostatic groove.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Adjective; Latin major, “ greater ”. This is the larger of the two species of Dibologonus gen. nov. co-occurring near Mt Baw Baw.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Collected at two sites ca 2.5 km apart near Mt St Gwinear (Fig. 16 A), in wet sclerophyll forest at 1035 m and cool temperate rainforest at 1270 m. Co-occurs with D. minor sp. nov.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>No females of this species have yet been recognised, and none of the four males examined have modified legs as seen in D. oedipus sp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5EFEFE241705912AB4E83AA367B3FAB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
388F578E6AD951F3A3F6A86D716C88B7.text	388F578E6AD951F3A3F6A86D716C88B7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dibologonus Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Dibologonus gen. nov.</p><p>Type species.</p><p>Dibologonus sladei sp. nov., by present designation.</p><p>Other assigned species.</p><p>Dibologonus major sp. nov., D. minor sp. nov., D. oedipus sp. nov.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Distinguished from other described Australian dalodesmids by the very slender gonopod telopodite split into a medial branch and a lateral solenomere with a helical prostatic groove; the two branches straight, extending distally in parallel and close together.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Males and females with body plan head + 19 rings (including telson).</p><p>Male with vertex sparsely setose, frons and clypeus setose; vertigial sulcus reaching 1 / 2 way to top of antennal sockets; sockets separated by ca 2 × socket diameter. Relative ring widths: 6&gt; 5&gt; 4&gt; 3&gt; 2&gt; collum; ring widths 6–13 subequal, diminishing posteriorly; head approximately as wide as ring 4 or 5. Collum half-moon-shaped in dorsal view, posteriorly slightly emarginate, corner bluntly rounded. Tergite 2 without ventral pit; paranotal margin a little lower than tergite 3 margin. Midbody paranotal margin at ca 1 / 2 ring height, level. Paranotum with anterior corner rounded, laterally gently convex, posterior corner not or only slightly projecting. Midbody ring with metatergite width ca 1.3–1.4 × prozonite width; waist well-defined. Metatergite nearly smooth, with 2 transverse rows and a posterior marginal row of very small setae. Pore formula normal, ozopore near posterior corner of paranotum. Limbus a simple row of spine-like elements. Spiracles small, round, barely raised above pleurite surface, on diplosegments with posterior spiracle between leg bases. Sternites a little longer than wide, transverse impression deeper and wider than longitudinal impression, variably setose. Relative podomere lengths of midbody leg: tarsus&gt; femur&gt; prefemur&gt; (postfemur, tibia); tarsus straight. Epiproct short, conical; hypoproct subtrapezoidal or broadly paraboloid; spinnerets in square array.</p><p>Gonopore small, opening distomedially on leg 2 coxa. Gonocoxae small, subconical, lightly joined distomedially. Aperture a little longer than wide, ca 1 / 2 ring 7 prozonite width, margin produced posterolaterally. Gonopod telopodites slender, straight, split into medial branch and lateral solenomere; ring 6 sternite excavate to accommodate retracted telopodites, with small tufts of setae above leg bases. Prostatic groove running from medial surface at telopodite base across posterior surface, then between medial branch and solenomere and curving in spiral around solenomere (left-handed spiral on left telopodite, right-handed spiral on right telopodite).</p><p>Name.</p><p>Greek dibolos (“ two-pointed ”) plus “ - gonus ”, an ending for genus names in Polydesmida that refers to gonopod structure. The gonopod telopodite is split into two parallel processes. Gender masculine.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>The four species of Dibologonus gen. nov. are partly distinguishable by adult size, but more reliably by differences in the structure of the gonopod telopodite. As the telopodite processes are tightly packed together, these differences are best seen under high magnification (Fig. 9).</p><p>Species of Dibologonus gen. nov. occur widely in eastern Victoria and southeastern New South Wales (Fig. 16 A), and more species (or significant range extensions) are likely to be found in future.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/388F578E6AD951F3A3F6A86D716C88B7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
649CFDA30B945C309ABCBE4BC1192382.text	649CFDA30B945C309ABCBE4BC1192382.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dibologonus minor Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Dibologonus minor sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 9 C, 12, 16 A</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Male in 95 % EtOH, Mt Baw Baw, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.2748&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8433" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.2748/lat -37.8433)">0.43 km S by W of Mt Baw Baw summit, site HS 20-C-L 3</a>, -37.8433, 146.2748 ± 25 m, 1410–1430 m, 2024-02 - 13, coll. Nicholas Porch and Daniel Kurek, 1 m 2 litter sample from closed shrubby subalpine woodland, NMV K 16012 . Paratypes. 1 M, 2 F, Baw Baw Tourist Road, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.2324&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8475" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.2324/lat -37.8475)">0.79 km WNW of Baw Baw Alpine Resort entrance, site NP 23-11</a>, -37.8475, 146.2324 ± 25 m, 760 m, 2023-03 - 05, coll. Nicholas Porch, 2 m 2 litter sample from snow gum woodland, NMV K 16505 ; 2 M, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.2611&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8382" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.2611/lat -37.8382)">Baw Baw Alpine Reserve, near NE middle of carpark 3, site NP 23-05</a>, -37.8382, 146.2611 ± 25 m, 1460 m, NMV K 16503 ; 1 F, same details but Baw Baw Alpine Reserve, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.2589&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8354" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.2589/lat -37.8354)">40 m N of Saxons Picnic Area, site NP 23-08</a>, -37.8354, 146.2589 ± 25 m, 1435 m, NMV K 16011 ; 1 M, 2 F, same details but Baw Baw Alpine Reserve, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.2599&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8352" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.2599/lat -37.8352)">0.1 km NE by E of Saxons Picnic Area, site NP 23-10</a>, -37.8352, 146.2599 ± 25 m, 1430 m, NMV K 16504 ; 1 M, same details but Baw Baw National Park, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.3346&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8368" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.3346/lat -37.8368)">0.5 km NNE of Mt St Gwinear carpark, site NP 23-18</a>, -37.8368, 146.3346 ± 25 m, 1270 m, 2023-03 - 15, NMV K 16013 ; 2 M, same details but Mt Baw Baw Alpine Reserve, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.2734&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8371" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.2734/lat -37.8371)">0.35 km W of Mt Baw Baw summit, site HS 27-O-L 3</a>, -37.8371, 146.2734 ± 25 m, 1560 m, coll. Nicholas Porch and Aidan Fitt, grassy / shrubby snow gum woodland, NMV K 16014 .</p><p>Additional material.</p><p>None.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Much smaller than D. sladei sp. nov. and D. major sp. nov. Distinguished from the other three species of Dibologonus gen. nov. in having the major division into medial branch and solenomere at ca 2 / 3 telopodite height vs 1 / 3 height.</p><p>Description.</p><p>As for the genus, with the following details. Colour in alcohol pale yellow, sometimes with fine reddish-brown speckling at collum and paranotal margins. Adult male / female approximate measurements: length 8 / 9 mm, maximum midbody diameter 0.8 / 0.9.</p><p>Male with antenna almost reaching tergite 3 when manipulated dorsally; relative antennomere lengths 6&gt; 3&gt; 2&gt; (4, 5); 6 widest. Metatergites slightly wider posteriorly, midbody metatergite width ca 1.2 × prozonite width. Midbody leg ca 1.4 × ring diameter. Brush setae tapering to point curving a little proximally, with mid-height notch as in D. sladei sp. nov. on coxa / trochanter, prefemur, femur; sphaerotrichomes (Fig. 12 C) on postfemur, tibia and tarsus with very small globular base and pointed shaft, the tip not curving.</p><p>Gonopod telopodites (Figs 9 C, 12 A, B) straight, almost reaching legpair 5 when retracted, sparsely setose posterolaterally to ca 1 / 2 telopodite height. Telopodite divided at ca 2 / 3 telopodite height into medial branch and solenomere. Medial branch divided near base into medial and lateral processes, the medial process shorter and further divided into parallel, bluntly pointed subprocesses; medial branch hidden in posterior view by solenomere. Solenomere divided at ca 3 / 4 telopodite height into anterolateral process and posteromedial process, with small rounded tooth on posterior telopodite surface near division. Anterolateral process flattened, curving slightly medially near tip, the apex with a cluster of four or five small teeth. Posteromedial process with small, horn-like, posterior subprocess curving laterally, the prostatic groove terminating at tip; posteromedial process then extending distally as flattened subprocess, becoming cylindrical and curving posterolaterally, with minute teeth on margins and at apex, and with small, basally directed tooth above horn-like subprocess.</p><p>Female a little larger than male, epigynum subrectangular; cyphopods not examined.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Adjective; Latin minor, “ less ”. This is the smaller of the two species of Dibologonus gen. nov. co-occurring near Mt Baw Baw.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Collected over a ca 9 km linear range near Mt Baw Baw (Fig. 16 A), in subalpine woodland and riparian rainforest from 760 to 1560 m. Co-occurs with D. major sp. nov.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>None of the males examined have modified legs as seen in D. oedipus sp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/649CFDA30B945C309ABCBE4BC1192382	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
1BB54D6297A451179E4A249587F21CB7.text	1BB54D6297A451179E4A249587F21CB7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dibologonus oedipus Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Dibologonus oedipus sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 9 D, 13, 16 A</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Male, Kosciuszko National Park (NSW), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=148.506&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.3579" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 148.506/lat -36.3579)">0.49 km NE of Rennix Gap, site HS 41-O-L 3</a>, -36.3579, 148.5060 ± 25 m, 1580 m, coll. Nicholas Porch, 2025-02 - 22, 1 m 2 litter sample from open shrubby subalpine grassland, NMV K 16511 . Paratypes. 8 M, 17 F, details as for holotype, NMV K 16516; 7 M, 2 F, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=148.5046&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.3561" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 148.5046/lat -36.3561)">0.58 km NNE of Rennix Gap, site HS 40-C-L 2</a>, -36.3561, 148.5046 ± 25 m, 1600 m, coll. Nicholas Porch and Aidan Fitt, 2025-02 - 09, closed shrubby subalpine woodland, NMV K 16526 ; 1 M, same details but in 95 % EtOH, NMV K 16510; 9 M, 1 F, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=148.506&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-36.3579" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 148.506/lat -36.3579)">0.52 km NNE of Rennix Gap, site HS 40-C-L 3</a>, -36.3579, 148.5060 ± 25 m, 1595 m, NMV K 16506 .</p><p>Additional material.</p><p>16 M, 33 F, 3 J from 16 other sites. See Suppl. material 1 for details.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Smaller than D. sladei sp. nov. and D. major sp. nov. Distinguished from D. minor sp. nov. in having the major telopodite division at 1 / 3 telopodite height vs 2 / 3 height; distinguished from D. sladei sp. nov. by the expanded vs non-expanded apex of the solenomere; distinguished from D. major sp. nov. by the solenomere being well-separated from the medial branch, not obscuring it. In most male specimens, distinguished from D. sladei sp. nov., D. major sp. nov. and D. minor sp. nov. by modified right and left legs 13, 15 or 17.</p><p>Description.</p><p>As for the genus, with the following details. Colour in alcohol uniformly pale yellow, sometimes with fine brown speckling at collum and paranotal margins. Adult male / female approximate measurements: length 9 / 8 mm, midbody diameter 0.9 / 0.8.</p><p>Male with antenna almost reaching tergite 3 when manipulated dorsally; relative antennomere lengths 6&gt; 3&gt; 2&gt; (4, 5); 6 widest. Posterior corners of paranota not projecting. Midbody metatergite width ca 1.2 × prozonite width. Midbody leg ca 1.7 × ring diameter. Legpairs 13, 15 or 17 may be greatly modified: prefemur, femur, postfemur and claw reduced in length, tibia and tarsus fused into swollen structure with dense ventral setation (Fig. 13 A). Brush setae dense, tapering to slightly curved point, without mid-height notch, on coxa / trochanter, prefemur, femur; sphaerotrichomes with slightly flattened globular base and pointed shaft on postfemur, tibia and tarsus.</p><p>Gonopod telopodites (Figs 9 D, 13 B) straight, almost reaching legpair 5 when retracted. Telopodite divided at ca 1 / 3 telopodite height into medial branch and solenomere. Medial branch flattened, with small, tab-like posterolateral extension at ca 1 / 2 branch height; divided at ca 3 / 4 telopodite height into closely appressed medial and lateral processes: medial process shorter, flattened, tapering to blunt point; lateral process subcylindrical, tapering to blunt point a little distal to first division of solenomere. Solenomere well-separated from medial branch, divided at ca 7 / 8 telopodite height into medial and lateral processes, closely appressed, the lateral process tapering and terminating at level of prostatic groove opening on medial process. Medial process divided into leaf-like lateral portion curving medially, with small triangular extension on posterior margin, and well-separated, shorter, medial portion terminating in 3 small teeth, the central tooth having the prostatic groove opening and the most lateral tooth bluntly bifurcate.</p><p>Female a little smaller than male and with thinner, legs never modified; epigynum raised medially in low, rounded triangle; cyphopods not examined.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Noun in apposition, for the mythical king Oedipus of Thebes, whose name means “ swollen foot ”. See Remarks for notes on modified podomeres in this species.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Collected over a ca 125 km linear range from Namadgi National Park in the Australian Capital Territory to Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales (Fig. 16 A), in subalpine woodland and shrubland from 1485 to 1880 m.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>Modified legpairs 13, 15 or 17 are found in males across the range of D. oedipus sp. nov. and are not restricted to particular areas. Among the males with modified legs, all specimens with intact legs have modifications on both the left and right posterior legs on a particular ring. Six males have modifications on leg 13 (ring 9), one on leg 15 (ring 10) and 17 on leg 17 (ring 11). A single male (with intact legs) has no leg modifications. Variation in which legs are modified appears within populations: site HS 42-C-L 1 had three males with modified leg 13 and one with modified leg 17, while site HS 47-C-L 2 had one male without modifications, one with modified leg 15 and two with modified leg 17.</p><p>Similarly swollen distal podomeres were reported by Shear et al. (2022) in two males of the chordeumatidan Amplaria oedipus Shear, Nosler and Marek, 2022 from Cape Mountain, Oregon, USA. In both specimens the swollen podomeres were on legpairs 5 and 6.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1BB54D6297A451179E4A249587F21CB7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
2D99218862B75E58BF3E964194519223.text	2D99218862B75E58BF3E964194519223.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dibologonus sladei Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Dibologonus sladei sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 9 A, 10, 16 A</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Male, Dargo High Plains Road (Vic), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=147.1662&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.1134" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 147.1662/lat -37.1134)">90 m S by W of King Spur Track junction, site HS 10-C-L 3</a>, -37.1134, 147.1662 ± 25 m, 1575–1595 m, coll. Nicholas Porch, 2024-04 - 14, 1 m 2 litter sample from closed snow gum woodland, NMV K 15999 . Paratypes. 13 M, 24 F, details as for holotype, NMV K 16005; 6 M, 14 F, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=147.1677&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.1134" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 147.1677/lat -37.1134)">0.14 km SE by E of King Spur Track junction, site HS 10-C-L 1</a>, -37.1134, 147.1677 ± 25 m, 1565–1585 m, NMV K 16002 ; 1 M, same details but in 95 % EtOH, NMV K 15998; 12 M, 13 F, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=147.1669&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.1137" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 147.1669/lat -37.1137)">0.13 km S by E of King Spur Track junction, site HS 10-C-L 2</a>, -37.1137, 147.1669 ± 25 m, 1570–1590 m, NMV K 16004 .</p><p>Additional material.</p><p>11 M, 15 F from five other sites. See Suppl. material 1 for details.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Much larger than D. minor sp. nov. and D. oedipus sp. nov. Solenomere with apex not expanded as in D. major sp. nov. and D. oedipus sp. nov.; major telopodite division into medial branch and solenomere at ca 1 / 3 telopodite height vs 2 / 3 height as in D. minor sp. nov.</p><p>Description.</p><p>As for the genus, with the following details. Colour in alcohol brownish-yellow with pale brown at collum and paranotal margins. Adult male / female approximate measurements: length 14 / 14 mm, maximum midbody width 1.5 / 1.5 mm. Brush setae dense, tips curving distally and with mid-height notch on distal surface (Fig. 10 A); sphaerotrichomes with slightly flattened globular base, shafts with rounded tips curving distally (Fig. 10 B).</p><p>Gonopod telopodites (Figs 9 A, 10 C) almost reaching legpair 4 when retracted, setose posterolaterally to ca 1 / 3 telopodite height. Telopodite divided into medial branch and solenomere at ca 1 / 3 telopodite height. Medial branch divided at ca 1 / 2 telopodite height into parallel anteromedial and posterolateral processes, both processes somewhat flattened; anteromedial process with blunt, rounded tip below level of solenomere; posteromedial process shorter than anteromedial, with truncate tip. Solenomere divided at ca 3 / 4 telopodite height into anterolateral process and much shorter, parallel, posteromedial process, the latter somewhat flattened and tapering to point. Anterolateral process somewhat flattened, curving a little laterally, bending medially at apex and dividing into two short, tooth-like processes, the prostatic groove opening on the proximal tooth. On the anterior surface of the telopodite at ca 1 / 2 telopodite height, a prominent triangular tab (Fig. 10 C) with apex directed anterobasally.</p><p>Female approximately the same length as male but a little stouter and with thinner legs. Epigynum raised medially in low, rounded triangle; cyphopods not examined.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Noun in the genitive case, in honour of George Hermon Slade (1910–2002), Australian chemist, orchidologist and founder of the Hermon Slade Foundation for support of research in the natural sciences.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Collected over a ca 55 km linear range from Mt Buffalo National Park to the Dargo High Plains (Fig. 16 A), in subalpine woodland from 1500 to 1640 m.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>None of the males examined have modified legs as seen in D. oedipus sp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2D99218862B75E58BF3E964194519223	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
B31CBFC0EF4753EB8F76B4130A3C0BC8.text	B31CBFC0EF4753EB8F76B4130A3C0BC8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lissodesmus milledgei Mesibov 2006	<div><p>Lissodesmus milledgei Mesibov, 2006</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>1 M, 1 F from two neighbouring sites on Mt Baw Baw (Vic) (Fig. 15 A). See Suppl. material 1 for details.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>The new records extend the range of this uncommon species ca 50 km to the southeast and upwards to ca 1430 m. It was previously known from three rainforest sites at elevations below 1000 m.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B31CBFC0EF4753EB8F76B4130A3C0BC8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
8417A2304B95549D948CB2CAD727DDD8.text	8417A2304B95549D948CB2CAD727DDD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Orthorhachis durabilis Mesibov 2008	<div><p>Orthorhachis durabilis Mesibov, 2008</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>10 M, 17 F, 96 J from 31 sites in the mountains of Victoria and New South Wales (Fig. 16 B). See Suppl. material 1 for details.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>The new records are in the mountainous parts of the O. durabilis range envelope and extend the known maximum elevation to ca 1760 m. This species is the most widespread dalodesmid on the southeastern Australian mainland, with a linear range extent of ca 480 km.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8417A2304B95549D948CB2CAD727DDD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
A506F4EBE2B8529EBD1BF635A515DBC2.text	A506F4EBE2B8529EBD1BF635A515DBC2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Polydactylogonus Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Polydactylogonus gen. nov.</p><p>Type species.</p><p>Polydactylogonus sanctogwinear sp. nov., by present designation.</p><p>Other assigned species.</p><p>None.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Distinguished from other Australian dalodesmids by the slender gonopod telopodite ending in a fan-like cluster of five branches.</p><p>Description.</p><p>As for the type species.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Greek polys (many) + dactylos (finger), plus “-gonus”, an ending for genus names in Polydesmida that refers to gonopod structure, e. g. Tridactylogonus Jeekel, 1982 . In anterior and posterior view the gonopod telopodite seems to end in five “ fingers ” spread apart. Masculine gender.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A506F4EBE2B8529EBD1BF635A515DBC2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
E28D6FCB808452B4B0F7C0D2DF01ECF2.text	E28D6FCB808452B4B0F7C0D2DF01ECF2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Polydactylogonus sanctogwinear Mesibov 2025	<div><p>Polydactylogonus sanctogwinear sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 14, 15 B</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Male, Baw Baw National Park (Vic), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.3306&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8388" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.3306/lat -37.8388)">0.26 km NNW of Mt St Gwinear carpark, site NP 23-13</a>, -37.8388, 146.3306 ± 25 m, 1325 m, coll. Nicholas Porch, 2023-03 - 15, 2 m 2 litter sample from snow gum woodland, NMV K 16527 . Paratypes. 7 M, details as for holotype, NMV K 16531; 1 M in 95 % EtOH, details as for holotype, NMV K 16528; 1 M, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.3315&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8396" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.3315/lat -37.8396)">0.14 km N by W of Mt St Gwinear carpark, site NP 23-14</a>, -37.8396, 146.3315 ± 25 m, 1315 m, NMV K 16529 ; 4 M, same details but <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.3307&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-37.8407" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.3307/lat -37.8407)">0.11 km W by N of Mt St Gwinear carpark, site NP 23-15</a>, -37.8407, 146.3307 ± 25 m, 1305 m, NMV K 16530 .</p><p>Additional material.</p><p>None.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Small dalodesmids ca 7 mm long with body plan head + 19 rings (including telson). Male colour in alcohol almost uniformly pale white, with reddish speckling at paranotal margins on some specimens. Head with vertex sparsely setose, frons and clypeus setose; vertigial sulcus reaching ca 1 / 2 way to level of line between top of antennal sockets. Sockets separated by ca 1.5 × socket diameter. Antenna strongly clavate, reaching tergite 3 when manipulated. Relative antennomere lengths (6, 3, 2)&gt; (4, 5), 6 widest. Relative tergite widths 6&gt; 5&gt; 2&gt; 4&gt; 3&gt; collum; rings 7–16 subequal in width, 17 and 18 narrower. Collum much narrower than head, half-moon-shaped in dorsal view, corner rounded. Paranotal margin on ring 2 much lower than ring 3 margin; no pit ventrally under ring 2 paranotum. Midbody paranotal margin level, at ca 2 / 3 ring height; paranotum with anterior corner rounded, lateral margin gently convex with setae at three marginal notches, notches more obvious on posterior rings; posterior margin more or less straight; posterior corners not projecting. Midbody metatergite ca 0.6 mm wide, ca 1.2 × prozonite width. Waist pronounced; prozonite posteriorly with small, tab-like elements clearly marking suture line; metatergites with three transverse rows of low bumps, the anterior bumps smallest, each bump bearing a single seta posteriorly; posterior margin of metatergite with 4 th transverse row of setae. Limbus composed of flat elements with minute, irregular, pointed branches (Fig. 14 B). Pore formula normal; ozopore small, round, opening dorsally at posterolateral corner of paranotum. Epiproct extending a little beyond anal valves, conical, apex truncate. Spinnerets in square array, not in depression on epiproct. Hypoproct subtrapezoidal. Sternites slightly wider than long, transverse impression deeper than longitudinal impression. Spiracles small, round, very slightly raised above pleurite surface. Relative podomere lengths of midbody leg: tarsus &gt;&gt; femur &gt;&gt; prefemur&gt; (postfemur, tibia); tarsus straight. Anterior legs somewhat swollen, prefemur and femur arched dorsally. Numerous sphaerotrichomes (Fig. 14 C) on anterior leg tarsus, tibia; a few sphaerotrichomes on postfemur; sphaerotrichomes with flattened globular base, shaft straight, tapering, strongly declined. Brush setae dense on prefemur, femur tapering to blunt points, tips slightly curving. Gonopore opening distomedially on leg 2 coxa. Aperture ca 1 / 2 ring 7 prozonite width, anterior margin nearly straight, rim projecting laterally and posteriorly. Retracted gonopod telopodites reaching just past leg 6. Ring 6 sternite excavate with short setal brushes above leg bases supporting retracted telopodites.</p><p>Telopodites (Fig. 14 A, D) erect, closely appressed, with a few basal setae posterolaterally. Telopodite divided at ca 2 / 3 height into fan-like cluster of 5 branches. Anteromedial branch short, spine-like. Anterolateral branch flat, long-triangular, directed slightly medially. Lateral branch cylindrical at base, expanding and flattening into fork-like group of 3 terminal processes tapering to points, the central process longest. Posterolateral branch flattened, with truncate tip bent towards solenomere. Posteromedial solenomere flattened, tapering abruptly and strongly near tip, the tip curving posteriorly, then distomedially. Prostatic groove running on medial surface of telopodite, following curve of solenomere to opening at apex.</p><p>Name.</p><p>Noun in apposition, for Mt St Gwinear.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>So far known only from subalpine woodland from 1305 to 1325 m in a small area ca 2 km southeast of the summit of Mt St Gwinear, near Mt Baw Baw in the Victorian mountains (Fig. 16 A).</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>No female specimens have been confidently assigned to this species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E28D6FCB808452B4B0F7C0D2DF01ECF2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mesibov, Robert	Mesibov, Robert (2025): Dalodesmid millipedes from alpine and subalpine habitats in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 1262: 303-333, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1262.176273
