Atelomastix culleni Edward &amp; Harvey 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Edward, Karen L.
name: Harvey, Mark S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Spirostreptida
Iulomorphidae
Atelomastix
Atelomastix culleni

description: <i>Atelomastix culleni</i>, sp. nov. Figs. 7, 53, 85, 86. <b>Type material:</b> AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: holotype male, Bremer Bay, near Cape Knob, 34°29’40”S, 119°16’29”E, hand collected under leaf litter, 7 June 2007, M.L. Moir, M.C. Leng (WAM T 83163). Paratypes: 12 males, 18 females, collected with holotype (WAM T80650, T80651); 1 male, 2 females, Mount Groper, in gully, 34°29’29”S, 118°53’31”E, hand collected under leaf litter, 25 October 2006, M.L. Moir, A. Sampey (WAM T 78621); 1 male, 2 females, Mount Groper, in gully, 34°29’29”S, 118°53’31”E, extracted from leaf litter using tullgren funnel, 25 October 2006, M.L. Moir, A. Sampey (WAM T 81061); 2 males, 2 females, Mount Groper, in gully, 34°29’23”S, 118°53’43”E, hand collected under leaf litter, 25 October 2006, M.L. Moir, A. Sampey (WAM T 78623). <b>Other material examined:</b> AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 1 female, collected with holotype (WAM T 80652); 3 females, Mount Groper, in gully, 34°29’32”S, 18°53’30”E, hand collected under leaf litter, 25 October 2006, M.L. Moir, A. Sampey (WAM T78778, T81060); 2 females, Mount Groper, in gully, 34°29’29”S, 118°53’31”E, hand collected under leaf litter, 25 October 2006, M.L. Moir, A. Sampey (WAM T 78620); 3 females, Mount Groper, in gully, 34°29’24”S, 118°53’48”E, hand collected under leaf litter, 25 October 2006, M.L. Moir, A. Sampey (WAM T 78777); 1 female, Mount Groper, in gully, 34°29’23”S, 118°53’43”E, hand collected under leaf litter, 25 October 2006, M.L. Moir, A. Sampey (WAM T 78622); 1 female, Cape Knob, Cave Hill, granite overhang, 34°30’50”S, 119°17’50”E, 13 January 2007, N. McQuoid (WAM T 78953). <b>Etymology:</b> The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Patrick Cullen. <b>Diagnosis:</b> The male gonopod morphology of <i>Atelomastix culleni</i> is similar to <i>A. psittacina</i> as sclerite <i>a</i> has a broad distal hood that curves around to overlap sclerite <i>b</i> and obscure the pseudoflagellum. However, it can be distinguished from <i>A. psittacina</i> as sclerite <i>b</i> is not significantly curved into a distal hook, and sclerite <i>c</i> is straight and broadened distally with a shallow concavity directed laterally. <b>Description:</b> <i>Male (holotype).</i> Colour: generally chocolate brown; legs, anal segment and antennae light brown; prozonites mottled brown, metazonites mottled brown in preserved specimens. Body: ca. 24 mm long and ca. 1.8 mm wide at collum. With 47 trunk segments, 81 pairs of legs, last 3 segments without legs. Head: with ca. 38 ocelli (Fig. 53), arranged in 6 rows (2: 5: 5: 8: 8: 10). Gonopods: anterior gonopods (Figs. 85, 86) with medium sclerotisation, 2.2 times longer than broad; sclerite <i>a</i> with swollen base that forms broad, curved distal hood that overlaps and extends to tip of sclerite <i>b</i>; upper distal face of sclerite <i>a</i> with 21–38 (n=2) short blunt setae; pseudoflagellum relatively short and partially visible beneath distal hood; sclerite <i>b</i> curved distally, forming blunt elongate tip, with 8–14 (n=2) short setae; basal process of sclerite <i>b</i> short, triangular, 0.08 times length of main process; sclerite <i>c</i> shorter than sclerite <i>b</i>, not bifurcate, tapering slightly to broad tip, 4–6 setae sub-medially; sub-basal setae absent where sclerites overlap and group of 11–14 (n=2) short setae sub-basally on sclerite <i>c</i>; posterior gonopods inconspicuous, small, with several small setae on interno-lateral face of each gonopod. Dimensions (mm): holotype male (paratype male, WAM T78621): length ca. 24, width ca. 1.8, L/W=13.2; sclerite <i>a</i> 1.216 / 0.543 (1.520 / 0.720), setae 21 (38); sclerite <i>b</i> 0.458 (0.512), basal process of sclerite <i>b</i> 0.038 (0.038), setae 8 (14); sclerite <i>c</i> 0.768 (0.960), setae 4 (6). <i>Female</i>. Similar to male, other than sexual characters, and slightly larger. <b>Distribution and habitat:</b> <i>Atelomastix culleni</i> is only known from Bremer Bay and Mount Groper (Fig. 7). Specimens were collected from leaf litter taken from forested gullies dominated by <i>Eucalyptus</i>, <i>Melaleuca</i> and <i>Agonis</i>.
description: Published as part of <i>Edward, Karen L. &amp; Harvey, Mark S., 2010, A review of the Australian millipede genus Atelomastix (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Iulomorphidae) 2371, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 2371 (1)</i> on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2371.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5312214