taxonID	type	description	language	source
03C587E3FFE9587B5CB24EBFFC79FCA6.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Rhinocricus quintiporus Attems, 1897, by original designation.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE9587B5CB24EBFFC79FCA6.taxon	discussion	COMMENT. This is a relatively small genus of Rhinocricidae currently comprising only nine species or subspecies from New Guinea and several surrounding archipelagos (Moluccas, Bismarck and Solomons) [Jeekel, 2001]. Following Jeekel [2001], we consider the species with only four apical cones on each antenna (= tetraconocerate), a strong to hypertrophied sternum of the anterior gonopods devoid of a basally constricted central process, coupled with a simple and bifurcate posterior gonopod only terminally broadened into an obliquely truncate blade, as belonging to this genus.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFEB58795C564A48FBF0F935.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: D. lanceolatus Brölemann, 1913, by original designation.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFEB58795C564A48FBF0F935.taxon	discussion	COMMENT. This is one of the largest genera in Rhinocricidae currently comprising at least 44 nominal species or subspecies [Jeekel, 2001]. Following Jeekel [2001], we consider the species with only four apical cones on each antenna (= tetraconocerate), coupled with a simple, bifurcate and flagelliform posterior gonopod, as belonging to this genus. Contrary to Jeekel [2001], Hoffman [1974] considered it as a junior subjective synonym of Salpidobolus Silvestri, 1897 (see below).	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFEB587F5C6049F9FAA5F784.taxon	description	Figs 10 – 31.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFEB587F5C6049F9FAA5F784.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL. 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ fragments (ZMUM), Solomon Islands, Isabel Province, Bio Island, S 7 ° 31 ′ 49.3 ″, E 158 ° 41 ′ 0.1 ″, on litter surface, 23. XII. 1977, Yu. I. Chernov leg.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFEB587F5C6049F9FAA5F784.taxon	description	DESCRIPTION. The only complete specimen (♂) ca. 85 mm long, 11.5 mm wide, with 32 p + T segments. ♀ fragments up to 11.5 – 12.0 mm wide. Colouration rather uniformly dark grey- to black-brown, mostly deep olive, only labrum and prozonae red-brown, legs grey- to reddish brown, and eye patches blackish (Figs 10 – 14). All characters as in Propodobolus sp., except as follows. Tegument smooth, finely leathery, mesozonae mostly shining, metazonae almost dull. Interantennal isthmus ca. 2 x diameter of antennal socket. Collum broadly and regularly rounded laterally, anterior, lateral and even caudolateral margins clearly, but narrowly bordered. Midbody segments / rings very faintly striolate, apparently strongly obliterate, more densely and clearly so ventrad, dorsum fully smooth; striolations on metazonae longitudinal and visible only in ventral 1 / 3 (= well below ozopore level), on mesozonae slightly oblique, directed dorsad and extending up to ozopore level, but on both zonae still traceable even above ozopore (Figs 10 – 14), more clearly so and less strongly obliterate in ♀ fragments. Scobinae present starting with ring 8: inconspicuous, paramedian, narrow, lunular pits separated from each other by their own width, devoid of posterior fields and placed just at anterior margin of prozona. Ozopores small, inconspicuous disks, starting with ring 6, each pore lying upon line / suture both just before metazona and longitudinal line. Rather numerous light and irregular spots / sigilla on internal surface of meso- and metazonae (Fig. 11). Gonopods (Figs 15 – 18). Anterior gonopods with a very strong, long, median, spear-shaped, apically rounded, sternal process (s), the latter only slightly longer than both coxa (cx) and telopodite (t) with its small, apical, rounded, laterally directed process (tp); cx stout, with a strong, mesal, subtriangular, apically acuminate projection (mp), t more slender than cx. Posterior gonopods consisting of a short, stout, subcylindrical coxa and a slender, much longer, bipartite telopodite; apicolateral branch (lb) the longest, ca. 3 x as long as a similarly flagelliform solenomere (sl).	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFEB587F5C6049F9FAA5F784.taxon	discussion	REMARKS. According to Chamberlin [1920], the holotype of Dinematocricus bionus was ca. 145 mm in length and 11.5 mm in width, and the body with 60 segments. As nothing was said about the antennae, Jeekel [2001] assigned this species to Dinematocricus with but reservations, referring to the genus in quotation marks. The original, purely verbal description of D. bionus disagrees with our account in a few, but quite important details. The holotype is much larger in length, but the same in width; the number of body segments is strikingly greater (obviously 59 + T, vs. 32 + T); the tegument is finely coriaceous and micropunctate (vs. coriaceous and impunctate); the scobinae are supplied with finely striolate, triangular, posterior fields (vs. devoid of posterior fields); and the collum is narrowly rounded laterally (vs. broadly and regularly rounded). The above strictly topotypic material from Bio Island in the ZMUM contains also 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ which are even smaller in size: length ca. 54 mm, width 6 mm, 58 + 1 + T (♂) or length ca. 80 mm, width 8 mm, 59 + T (♀); scobinae present on rings 8 to 31. Both smaller specimens fully agree in every detail to the larger subsample described above, thus allowing all ZMUM material to be considered as likely conspecific. The smaller ♂ and ♀ are only a little lighter than the larger ones, the striations on the body are less strongly obliterate and more clearly visible, while the gonopods are almost identical (Figs 19 – 31). Given the remarkable size variations, could the ZMUM material belong to the same species D. bionus? We tend to answer positively. The main type of anamorphosis in Spirobolida being hemianamorphosis, very considerable size variations in adult conspecific Rhinocricidae have long been noted, while the gonopods grow gradually and either remain unchanged or get at least somewhat modified from one stadium to the next [Mauriès, 1980; Enghoff et al., 1993; Bond et al., 2003]. The above variations in D. bionus seem best to be accounted for by hemianamorphosis. However, before the holotype of D. bionus is properly revised, we refrain from definitely labeling our samples. In addition to D. bionus, there are at least a few other congeners, e. g. D. carinatus (Karsch, 1881), D. lanceolatus Brölemann, 1913, D. repandus Attems, 1914 and D. strobilus Attems, 1914, in which the anterior gonopods show a similarly conspicuous and spear-shaped central sternal process [Brölemann, 1913; Attems, 1914], all of them from New Guinea and / or adjacent archipelagos [Jeekel, 2001]. Thus, a syntype of D. repandus is illustrated here to show the remarkable similarities to D. bionus in gonopodal structure (Figs 32 – 35). Another sample that clearly belongs to the same species group and identified as D. philistus Attems, 1914 is available in the ZMUM collections, as follows.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE058715E2949A6FAA4FB78.taxon	description	Figs 36 – 41.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE058715E2949A6FAA4FB78.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL: 1 ♂ (ZMUM), eastern Indonesia, Maluku Tengah Prov., Molucca (= Maluku) Islands, northern Seram (formerly Ceram) Island, near Horale (Saka) village, S 02 º 56 ′ 15 ″, E 129 º 04 ′ 54 ″, shrubs and secondary lowland tropical forest, on road, 6. IV. 2009, M. Kalniņš & P. Pipkalēja leg.; 1 ♀ (ZMUM), Central Moluccas Province (= Maluku Tengah), Lease Islands S of Seram, Saparua Island, 1.5 km NE of Kota Saparua, S 03 º 33 ′ 31 ″, E 128 º 39 ′ 50 ″, secondary lowland tropical forest, 10. IV. 2009, M. Kalniņš leg.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE058715E2949A6FAA4FB78.taxon	description	DESCRIPTION. Topotype ♂ from Seram ca. 80 mm long, 6.0 mm wide, with 53 p + T segments. ♀ ca. 82 mm long, 10.0 mm wide, with 57 p + T segments. Colouration uniformly blackish to blackish brown; collum narrowly dark reddish along both anterior and caudal margins, following metazonae narrowly cingulate, similarly vague and dark reddish at caudal margin; prozonae often with yellow spots around / near scobinae; legs grey- or red-brown; labrum, antennae and most of telson dark brown, eye patches blackish (Figs 36 – 38). All characters as in Propodobolus sp., except as follows. Tegument smooth and shining, mostly very delicately incised. Epicranial suture short and fully or almost fully obliterate. Antennae very short and stout, only antennomeres 5 – 7 densely setose (Figs 36, 37). Interantennal isthmus ca. 2 x diameter of antennal socket. Collum broadly and regularly rounded laterally, anterior and lateral margins clearly, but narrowly bordered (Fig. 36). Midbody segments / rings faintly striate to striolate, more densely and clearly so ventrad, striations on dorsum above ozopore level being strongly obliterate, often abbreviated, but visible (Figs 36 – 38). Scobinae present, starting with ring 8 and traceable at least until midbody segments: inconspicuous, paramedian, narrow, lunular pits separated from each other by ca. 1.3 x their own width, devoid of posterior fields and placed just at anterior margin of prozona (Fig. 38). Ozopores small, inconspicuous disks, starting with ring 6, each pore lying upon line / suture both just before metazona and below longitudinal line. Rather numerous light and irregular spots / sigilla on internal surface of meso- and metazonae. Epiproct small, especially strongly flattened dorsoventrally. Paraprocts only faintly swollen along caudal margin (Fig. 36). Legs ca. 2 / 3 (♂) or 1 / 3 (♀) as long as body height, fully devoid of sole pads, ♂ coxae 3 – 5 swollen ventrally (Fig. 37), a spine each above and below claw. Gonopods (Figs 39 – 41). Anterior gonopods with a very strong, long, unusually broad, median, spear-shaped, apically rounded, sternal process (s), the latter being much longer / higher than both coxa (cx) and telopodite (t) with its small, apical, rounded, caudolaterally directed process (tp); cx stout, with a strong, mesal, subtriangular projection (mp), t much more slender than cx. Posterior gonopods consisting of a shorter, relatively stout, subcylindrical coxa and a slender, much longer, bipartite telopodite; apicolateral branch (lb) the longest,> 2 x as long as a similarly flagelliform solenomere (sl).	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE058715E2949A6FAA4FB78.taxon	discussion	REMARKS. Based on Attems [1914, 1915], in particular the extended description and figs 19 – 21, at least the above ♂ topotype is well identifiable as D. philistus, another species with a strongly spear-shaped central sternal process of the anterior gonopods (Figs 39, 40). However, this process s seems to be unusually hypertrophied in D. philistus compared to the remaining congeners from the same species group. Minor variations in D. philistus concern the colouration (uniformly blackish to blackish brown, vs. dark olive to red-brown in the description), body size (♂ ca. 80 mm long and 6.0 mm wide, with 53 p + T segments, vs. ≥ 75 mm long and 8 – 9.5 mm wide, with 49 – 59 p + T segments in the description), scobinae starting with segment 8 (and present until segment 38, according to the description) etc. Syntypes of D. philistus (NHMW 2364): 1 dissected ♂, 1 ♀, 2 micro preparations, Indonesia, Molukken, Ambon, L. F. Beaufort leg.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE358765C714A37FD5DFABE.taxon	description	Figs 42 – 52.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE358765C714A37FD5DFABE.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL. 5 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, 2 ♀♀ juv. (ZMUM), Papua New Guinea, Maclay Coast, near Kepoiak, S 5 ° 45 ′, E 146 ° 35 ′, forest litter, 13. II. 1977, G. F. Kurcheva leg.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE358765C714A37FD5DFABE.taxon	description	DESCRIPTION. Adults ca. 82 – 90 mm long, 7.0 – 9.0 mm wide, with 53 – 56 p + T segments (♂, ♀), presumed subadults 52 or 54 mm long and 6.0 mm wide, with 52 p + 1 ap + T segments. Colouration in adults dark red-brown to dark grey-brown, pattern mostly clear due to metazonae and anterior parts of prozonae being cingulate and lighter reddish to yellowish (Figs 42, 44 – 46). Collum broadly flavous along both anterior and posterior margins (Fig. 42, 44). Epiproct similarly flavous (Fig. 46) or uniformly dark brown like head. Legs light to dark red-brown. All characters as in Propodobolus sp., except as follows. Tegument smooth and shining, mostly very delicately vermiculate. Interantennal isthmus ca. 2 x diameter of antennal socket. Collum broadly and regularly rounded laterally, anterior and lateral margins clearly, but narrowly bordered. Midbody segments / rings faintly striate to striolate, more densely and clearly so ventrad, striations on dorsum above ozopore level completely obliterate. Scobinae present, starting with ring 8 and traceable at least until midbody segments: inconspicuous, paramedian, narrow, lunular pits separated from each other by their own width and devoid of posterior fields. Ozopores small, inconspicuous disks, starting with ring 6, each pore lying upon line / suture both just before metazona and longitudinal line. Numerous light and irregular spots / sigilla on internal surface of meso- and metazonae. Epiproct small, faintly concave near midway in lateral view, flattened dorsoventrally. Paraprocts only faintly swollen along caudal margin. Legs ca. 1 / 2 (♂) or 1 / 3 (♀) as long as body height; faint sole pads present only on ♂ tarsi, ♂ coxae 3 – 5 swollen ventrally, a spine each above and below claw. Gonopods (Figs 47 – 52). Anterior gonopods with a slender, central, apically rounded, sternal process (s), the latter being a little longer / higher than both coxa (cx) and telopodite (t) with its small, apical, rounded, caudolateral process (tp); cx stout, with a strong, mesal, rounded, subtriangular projection (mp), t more slender than cx. Posterior gonopods consisting of a shorter, relatively stout, subcylindrical coxa and a slender, much longer, bipartite telopodite; apicolateral branch (lb) the longest,> 3 x as long as a similarly flagelliform solenomere (sl).	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE358765C714A37FD5DFABE.taxon	discussion	REMARKS. Based on Brölemann [1913], variations in D. aff. disjunctus compared to the original description concern the colouration (dark red-brown to dark grey-brown, with a mostly clearly cingulate pattern of lighter reddish or yellowish metazonae and anterior parts of prozonae, vs. dull ochraceous with brown caudal margins of metazonae in the description), body size (adults ca. 82 – 90 mm long and 7.0 – 9.0 mm wide, with 53 – 56 p + T segments, vs. holotype 57 mm long and 5.0 mm wide, with 52 p + 2 ap + T segments in the original description), scobinae (starting with segment 8 and present at least until midbody rings, vs. ca. 14 and present until about segment 30, according to the original description). In addition, since the anterior gonopods of the holotype show a slightly higher / longer, albeit similarly slender central sternal process and considerably higher / longer telopodites [Brölemann, 1913], the identity of the samples from Maclay Coast is bound to remain provisional.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE458745FDC4A45FD4FF9CD.taxon	description	Figs 53 – 76.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE458745FDC4A45FD4FF9CD.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL. 11 ♂♂, 13 ♀♀, 3 ♀♀ juv. (ZMUM), Papua New Guinea, Trobriand Archipelago, Kiriwina Island, 24. I. 1977, G. F. Kurcheva leg.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE458745FDC4A45FD4FF9CD.taxon	description	DESCRIPTION. Adults mostly ca. 85 – 120 mm long and 8.5 – 11.5 wide (♂, ♀), with 53 – 59 p + T segments (♂, ♀), presumed subadults 53 – 78 mm long and 5 – 6 mm wide, with 45 p + 4 ap + T, 53 p + 3 ap + T or 55 p + 3 ap + T segments. A single deviant ♂ ca. 52 mm in length, ca. 5.5 mm in width, with 47 p + 4 ap + T segments (see below). Colouration grey-brown to brown, pattern indistinctly cingulate due to darker brown metazonae and distinctly cingulate due to yellowish or light brown prozonae (Figs 53 – 60). Collum sometimes narrowly flavous along anterior margin (Fig. 53). Epiproct often similarly flavous dorsally (Figs 56, 60) Epiproct (Fig. 46) uniformly dark brown like head. Legs light to dark grey-brown. Presumed juveniles mostly greyish. Eye patches usually blackish brown, in adults each composed of 36 – 45 ommatidia arranged in 6 – 8 vertical rows. All characters as in Propodobolus sp., except as follows. Tegument smooth and shining, mostly very delicately vermiculate. Interantennal isthmus ca. 2 x diameter of antennal socket. Collum broadly and regularly rounded laterally, anterior and lateral margins, as well as caudolateral corner clearly, but narrowly bordered. Midbody segments / rings faintly striate to striolate, more densely and clearly so ventrad, striations on dorsum above ozopore level completely obliterate. Scobinae present, starting with ring 8 and traceable at least until last few segments: inconspicuous, paramedian, narrow, lunular pits separated from each other by ca. 3 x their own width, each with a small posterior field (Figs 54, 59). Ozopores small, inconspicuous disks, starting with ring 6, each pore lying upon line / suture both just before metazona and longitudinal line. Numerous light and irregular spots / sigilla on internal surface of meso- and metazonae. Epiproct small, faintly concave near proximal third in lateral view, flattened dorsoventrally. Paraprocts very clearly swollen along caudal margin (Figs 56, 60). Legs ca. 1 / 2 (♂) or 1 / 3 (♀) as long as body height; distinct sole pads present only on ♂ tarsi, gradually reduced towards posterior body third. ♂ coxae 3 – 5 swollen ventrally (Fig. 58), a spine each above and below claw. Gonopods (Figs 61 – 66). Anterior gonopods with a strong, central, distally broadened and apically narrowly rounded, sternal process (s), the latter being much longer / higher than both coxa (cx) and telopodite (t) with its small, apical, rounded, caudolateral process (tp); cx stout, with a moderate, elongate, mesal, subtriangular projection (mp), t more slender than cx. Posterior gonopods consisting of a shorter, relatively stout, subcylindrical coxa and a slender, much longer, bipartite telopodite; apicolateral branch (lb) the longest,> 3 x as long as a similarly flagelliform solenomere (sl).	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE458745FDC4A45FD4FF9CD.taxon	discussion	REMARKS. Among the ♂♂ in the above series the smallest one (length ca. 52 mm, width ca. 5.5 mm, with 47 p + 4 ap + T segments) superficially looks much the same as the others (Figs 69 – 74), but the ♂ sole pads are missing, the scobinae are only ca. 2 x apart from each other and show better developed posterior fields (Fig. 70), whereas the gonopods (Figs 67, 68, 71 – 74), both anterior and posterior, differ in the central sternal process (s) of the anterior gonopods being slightly bifid, club-shaped and considerably shorter than the telopodite (t), the medial projections (mp) of the coxite (cx) are relatively more prominent, and the entire posterior gonopod is much shorter. This sole ♂ may prove to belong to a different species, but given the entire body of evidence, including the smallest body size, the increased number of apodous segments, the absence of sole pads, the clearly shortened posterior gonopods etc., on balance we tend to regard that deviant ♂ as abnormal and somewhat underdeveloped, perhaps premature, and thus it seems conspecific with the other material. The development of most Spirobolida being hemianamorphotic, that of the gonopods in some members has long been known to be gradual [Mauriès, 1980; Enghoff et al., 1993; Bond et al., 2003], in D. aff. faucium likely getting modified at least between certain prematuration moults (cf. above under D. aff. bionus). Among the other variable characters, we can mention a lighter, rather vague dorsal spot on the dorsal side of the epiproct that is noticeable in several specimens. Carl [1918] distinguished that morph as the variety fulvosignatus, from an unspecified place in New Guinea, in which that light spot was clear. This variety still remains such and has no status in the nomenclature. Some of the features of D. faucium which Attems [1914] recorded from samples from the mainland of eastern Papua New Guinea differed from the original description so significantly that Jeekel [2001] suggested that they belonged to a species other than D. faucium. We believe that until more comparative material becomes available for study, the identity of the Kiriwina material is bound to remain but provisional. According to Brölemann [1913], the holotype from an island off Queensland, Australia was 112 mm long, 9.5 mm wide, with 54 p + 1 ap + T segments, blackish brown with red-brown cingula along the caudal margins of metazonae and a bright brown-red telson; scobinae are present on segment 8 to about 36 th, separated from each other by about 1.5 x their diameter and each showing a posterior field; the anal valves are bordered near the caudal margin; and ♂ tarsi are devoid of sole pads. The anterior gonopods, however, are exactly the same as in Figs 61, 62, 65 and 66.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE658745E3E4946FC5CF9CC.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: E. biolleyi Brölemann, 1903, by monotypy.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFE658745E3E4946FC5CF9CC.taxon	discussion	COMMENT. This rather large genus of Rhinocricidae presently comprises 34 species or subspecies which are mostly endemic to South and Central America, ranging from Brazil and Bolivia in the south to northern Mexico in the north (also introduced to the southern U. S. A.) [Jeekel, 2001; Marek et al., 2003; https: // bugguide. net / node / view / 103681]. Only two species are remarkable exceptions, one from the Caroline Islands and the other from the Marianas, both in Micronesia [Jeekel, 2001]. Following both Attems [1914] and Hoffman [1955], this tetraconocerate genus is distinguished through the structure of the posterior gonopod, in which the solenomere is a shorter mesal branch, while the main, outer branch is flattened, blade-shaped and apically usually subtruncate, not truly flagelliform. As noted above, some Eurhinocricus species from the Antilles also fit in the diagnoses of Australocricus and Propodobolus (cf. Bond, Sierwald [2002]).	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFFE586C5E274B66FE2FF9C8.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Rhinocricus meyeri Silvestri, 1897, by original designation.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFFE586C5E274B66FE2FF9C8.taxon	discussion	COMMENT. This large genus of Rhinocricidae presently comprises 30 Australasian species or subspecies ranging from Borneo and Sulawesi in the west, Micronesia and Melanesia in the north, to eastern Papua New Guinea in the east [Jeekel, 2001]. Following Attems [1914] and, especially, Jeekel [2001], this genus is polyconocerate, being distinguished only through the numerous (more than the minimum number of four) apical sensory cones on each antenna. This sole distinction between Dinematocricus and Salpidobolus is so weak that Hoffman [1974] formally synonymized the former genus under the latter one. In addition, some species were first described in Dinematocricus and only later transferred to Salpidobolus. Рис. 101. Правый Задний гонопод Salpidobolus alokistus (Attems, 1914), ♂ почти топотип иЗ порта Lae, спереди. ОбЪЯснениЯ обоЗначений в тексте. Нарисовано беЗ масШтаба. Still we strictly follow Jeekel’s [2001] classification for consistency reasons alone.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFFE586D5E294946FDF0FC3F.taxon	description	Figs 93 – 101.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFFE586D5E294946FDF0FC3F.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL. 1 ♂ (ZMUM), Papua New Guinea, S 6 ° 44 ′ 0 ″, E 147 ° 0 ′ 0 ″, Port Lae, botanical garden, wet forest, 18. II. 1977, G. F. Kurcheva leg.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFFE586D5E294946FDF0FC3F.taxon	description	BRIEF REDESCRIPTION. Length ca. 160 mm, width 14.5 mm, with 55 + T segments. Colouration blackish grey-brown with olive tinge, pattern clearly cingulated due to particularly dark metazonae and lighter, mostly brown pro- and mesozonae; tip of epiproct and legs dark brown (Figs 93 – 96). All characters as in Propodobolus sp., except as follows. Tegument smooth and shining, mostly very delicately vermiculate. Antennae with numerous, small, apical cones; antennomeres 5 – 7 densely setose, 4 th with several setae only near apical end; in length, 2> 3> 4 = 5 = 6> 1> 7. Interantennal isthmus ca. 3 x diameter of antennal socket. Collum broadly and regularly rounded laterally, only anterolateral margin rather briefly, narrowly and faintly bordered, but caudolateral corner clearly swollen, drop-shaped and rounded. Midbody segments / rings faintly striate to striolate, more densely and clearly so ventrad, striations often being irregular, on dorsum above ozopore level strongly obliterate, represented by faint, low, longitudinal ribs only on metazonae (Fig. 95). Scobinae absent. Ozopores small, inconspicuous disks, starting with ring 6, each pore lying upon line / suture both just before metazona and longitudinal line. Numerous light and irregular spots / sigilla on internal surface of meso- and metazonae. Epiproct flattened dorsoventrally, in lateral view faintly concave at base of a short, but clear apical process. Paraprocts very clearly concave at ca. 1 / 3 before caudal margin (Fig. 96). Legs ca. 1 / 2 as long as body height (♂); sole pads absent. ♂ coxae 3 – 5 swollen ventrally (Fig. 94), a spine each above and below claw. Gonopods (Figs 97 – 101). Anterior gonopods with a strong, very long / high, unusually slender, central, apically narrowly rounded, sternal process (s), the latter being much longer / higher than both coxa (cx) and telopodite (t) with its small, apical, rounded, caudolateral process (tp); cx stout, on each side with a moderate, elongate, mesal, rounded projection (mp), t much more slender than cx. Telopodite of posterior gonopods consisting of an unusually short and peg-shaped solenomere (sl), and a much longer, regularly curved, apicolateral branch (lb) (Fig. 101).	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
03C587E3FFFE586D5E294946FDF0FC3F.taxon	discussion	REMARKS. The above sample fits very well the original description [Attems, 1914], including such particular characters as the presence of a short, but distinct, apical epiproct process, the shape of the anterior gonopods, and the unusually short and peg-shaped solenomere of the posterior gonopod. Two syntypes of S. alokistus are housed in the Berlin Museum, both stated to be ♀♀ [Moritz, Fischer, 1975], although Attems [1914] based his original description on a ♂ and a ♀ syntype. The Vienna Museum keeps only a micro preparation (NHMW 4029) containing several ♂ legs, but no gonopods. Because the slide is labeled “ Rhinocricus alokistus / Bukaua / ö. n. guinea ”, the specimen may well be presumed to represent a syntype. Since the above type locality lies just within the settlement of Lae, the new sample may be regarded as a near-typotype.	en	Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P., Akkari, N. (2021): On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae. Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1): 3-27, DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.01
