Victoriocambala bidentata Jeekel, 2009

MESIBOV, ROBERT, 2017, Notes on Victorian Iulomorphidae (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 76, pp. 113-120 : 115-116

Victoriocambala bidentata Jeekel, 2009

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Figures 4C, 4D , 5A

Victoriocambala bidentata Jeekel, 2009: 35-38 , figs 6-9.— Korsós & Read, 2012: 46.

Previous record. Male holotype and 4 male, 2 female and 5 juvenile paratypes, Drummer State Forest , 15 km E of Cann River, Victoria [−37.5765 149.3105 ± 1 km], C.A.W. Jeekel & A.M. Jeekel-Rijvers, 13 Nov 1980, Australia Expedition station 84, Eucalyptus forest along Princes Highway, under logs, Naturalis Biodiversity Center ( Jeekel 2009, p. 35) .

Material examined. 1 male, 1 female, McKenzie River on Princes Highway , 20 km NE of Cabbage Tree Creek (“196357"), Victoria [−37.6294 148.8845 ±500 m], Australian Biological Resources Study snail survey, 13 Apr 1975, NMV K-13634 ; 1 male, Marshmead Bush Blitz, end of Lakeview Road , Victoria, 37° 31.565' S 149° 47.646' E [37.5261 149.7941 ± 100 m], S. Hinkley & P. Lillywhite, 3 Dec 2016, beating and direct search, NMV K-13651 .

Distribution. Known from three localities in far East Gippsland, Victoria (fig. 2).

Remarks. This species is easily recognised by the tooth on the anterodistal margin of the anterior gonopod telopodite (fig. 5A, t) and by the thinness of the tip of the coxite process (fig. 4D).

Figures

Figure 4. Victoriocambala buffalensis Verhoeff, 1944 (A, F, NMV K-13624; E, NMV K-12000), Amastigogonus tasmanianus Brölemann, 1913 (B, QVM 23:54414) and V. bidentata Jeekel, 2009 (C, D, NMV K-13651). A, B, anterior views of left leg 1. C posterior view of right posterior gonopod. D–F, lateral outlines of distal portion of coxite process on left anterior gonopod (anterior to left). at = anterior tab on prefemur, fe = femur, lp = lateral process (telopodite remnant), msd = median sternite division, po = postfemur, pr = prefemur, ta = tarsus, ti = tibia, tt = fused tibiotarsus. Scale bars for A–C = 0.25 mm; D–F not to scale.

Figure 5. Victoriocambala bidentata Jeekel, 2009 (A, NMV K-13634) and V. buffalensis Verhoeff, 1944 (B, NMV K-13646; C, NMV K-13625). Anterior views of anterior gonopods. c = coxite process, t = tooth on telopodite margin. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.