Paralamyctes (Haasiella) Pocock, 1901

Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2004, The henicopid centipede Haasiella (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha): new species from Australia, with a morphology-based phylogeny of Henicopidae, Journal of Natural History 38 (1), pp. 37-76 : 38-40

Subgenus Paralamyctes (Haasiella) Pocock, 1901

= Wailamyctes Archey, 1917 .

Type species. Henicops insularis Haase, 1887 (= Wailamyctes munroi Archey, 1923 ).

Diagnosis. Paralamyctes with median furrow on head shield extending to transverse suture, variably impressed behind suture; antenna with 17–22 articles; ocellus relatively posteriorly positioned; teeth on dental margin of maxillipede conical, decreasing in size medially, innermost tooth small; mandibular aciculae with barbs or pinnules along both margins; posterior margin of tergite 8 transverse; tarsi of legs 1–12 composed of a single article.

Assigned species. Wailamyctes halli Archey, 1917 ; Wailamyctes trailli Archey, 1917 ; Paralamyctes (Haasiella) cammooensis n. sp.; Paralamyctes (Haasiella) ginini n. sp.; Paralamyctes (Haasiella) subicolus n. sp.

Discussion. The diagnosis of the subgenus Haasiella above unites the three New Zealand species assigned by Archey (1917, 1923, 1937) to Wailamyctes with three new Australian species.

Archey (1937) cited the reduced size of the innermost tooth on the maxillipede margin in his diagnosis of Wailamyctes . This character is associated with a gradual reduction in the size of the teeth and their spacing medially, as seen in P. (H.) trailli (figure 3E of Edgecombe et al., 2002), P. (H.) cammooensis (figure 4D) and P. (H.) subicolus (figure 21B). As noted in Archey’s (1937) diagnosis, the teeth of P. ( Haasiella ) species are consistently conical, rather than the blunt bulbs of many species of P. (Thingathinga) and P. ( Paralamyctes ).

In New Zealand species that retain the ocellus, such as P. (H.) halli (figure 25 of Archey, 1917), the ocellus is positioned relatively further back than in other Paralamyctes . A similarly posterior position of the ocellus in observed in P. (H.) cammooensis (figures 2, 3) and P. (H.) ginini (figure 13), such that the character appears to have diagnostic value for P. ( Haasiella ).