Antichiropus rupinus Car, 2019

Car, Catherine A., Harvey, Mark S., Hillyer, Mia J. & Huey, Joel A., 2019, The millipede genus Antichiropus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), part 3: species of the Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia, Zootaxa 4617 (1), pp. 1-71 : 52-53

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4617.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:50F4058E-2871-4B5B-97D2-1CB216841C1E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5586545

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/42A3B2D6-4381-44FD-BDDB-A736A64D882C

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:42A3B2D6-4381-44FD-BDDB-A736A64D882C

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Plazi

scientific name

Antichiropus rupinus Car
status

sp. nov.

Antichiropus rupinus Car , n. sp.

( Figs 31 View FIGURE 31 A–E, 33)

ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:42A3B2D6-4381-44FD-BDDB-A736A64D882C

Type material examined. Australia: Western Australia: holotype male, Karijini National Park, near Ranger’s Station , 22°34’17”S, 118°22’41”E, 14 March 2015, in leaf litter, R. Teale and M. Harvey, et al. ( WAM T135512 View Materials ) GoogleMaps . Paratype: 1 male (damaged), Karijini National Park , ca. 21 km SW of Dale’s Gorge, alt. 700 m, site MAM1, 22°34’16”S, 118°22’37”E, 16 March 2015, dry pitfall trap, M. Hillyer, et al. ( WAM T135581 View Materials , GenBank accession number 12S, MK 735770 View Materials ; 28S, MK 735828 View Materials ; COIII, MK 735949 View Materials ) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Gonopod: Antichiropus rupinus Car , n. sp. is easily separated from all other Pilbara species because, instead of a prolongation of femorite on the gonopod, this species has 6 small teeth.

Description. Male holotype: Body ca. 15 mm long; midbody ring ca. 2 mm wide, with indistinct, smooth waist, prozonite and metazonite of similar width.

Colour (in alcohol) dark brown, paler ventrally ( Fig 31A View FIGURE 31 ): leg colour, mid brown. No paranota ( Fig 31B View FIGURE 31 ).

Sternites without obvious processes/tubercles, sternal lamella broad, rounded. Leg coxal processes absent. Anterior spiracles at midbody, small, ovoid, flat.

Head smooth without noticeable sculpturing; frons sparsely setose; face narrow, maximum width ca. 3x the distance between antennal sockets; sockets separated by ca. 2x width of socket.

Antennae short, reaching to collum, robust, segments 5 and 6 only slightly broader than remainder, short.

Collum 1x length of head (in lateral view) ( Fig 31A View FIGURE 31 ).

Gonopod of medium length, reaching ring 5; coxa (C) more robust than femorite, 1/2 femorite length with pronounced ridge on anterior surface; prefemur (PF) similar length to coxa, setose, prefemoral lip pronounced; femorite (F) 2/3 acropodite length, upright, slender for proximal half, then broadening slightly to narrow again at solenomere base; main femoral process (MFP) small, upright, pointed (fig); second femoral process (fp1) slender, curved, near femorite apex; prolongation of femorite (prof) represented by 6+ small teeth; solenomere(S) more slender than femorite, C-shaped, narrowing near tip, then broadening to a flattened tip; solenomere process 1 (sp1) near solenomere tip, very slender, curved, pointed ( Figs 31 View FIGURE 31 C–E).

Female: Unknown.

Distribution. To date, this species has been found only in the Karijini National Park in the Pilbara region ( Fig 33 View FIGURE 33 ).

Etymology. This species is named for the fact that it was found near one of the gorges in the Karijini National Park (Latin, noun, rupina, rocky chasm).

WAM

Western Australian Museum

MK

National Museum of Kenya

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