Lissodesmus catrionae Mesibov 2005, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Mesibov, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Dalodesmidae
Lissodesmus
Lissodesmus catrionae

description: Lissodesmus catrionae sp. nov.
Material examined. Holotype. Male, Australia, Victoria. Mt Cole, 37°16'44''S 143°14'23''E, 900 m, 8.ix.2004, R. Mesibov & T. Moule, NMV K-8968.
Paratypes. 3 males, details as for holotype, NMV K-8969 to K-8971, 2 dissected; 7 females, details as for holotype, NMV K-8972 to K-8978; 2 males, Mt Cole, 37°17'09''S 143°14'11''E, 850 m, 8.ix.2004, R. Mesibov & T. Moule, AM KS91169; 3 males, same details, NMV K-8979 to K-8981; female, same details, NMV K-8982.
Description. Male c. 16 mm long, H = 1.3 mm. In alcohol, well-coloured specimens under low magnification with very pale brown body colour, sparse red speckling on metatergites, paranota near-white. Antennae moderately long (Fig. 69 cat), about 1.75X a socket diameter apart. Paranota fairly wide, R = 1.5, anterior shoulders projecting forward (Fig. 70 cat); posterior corners not turned up. Legs with high, rounded prefemur (Fig. 71 cat), tarsus somewhat longer than femur. Telopodite (Figs 21, 22) with abrupt narrowing at prefemoral process origin, with sparse, long setae extending posterolaterally to just distal of tibiotarsus origin, reaching leg 4 when retracted. Solenomere arising at one-third the telopodite height, directed posterodistally at about 45° to telopodite axis and gradually curving distally, terminating with a small subapical projection at one-third to half the prefemoral process height. Tibiotarsus more or less parallel to solenomere, slightly flattened and wider than solenomere and about as long, bending slightly posteriorly at about half its length, flattening and widening apically with a large, rounded notch opening anteromesally and a small, bluntly pointed projection on anterior (distal) surface at about two-thirds the process length. Femoral process a very narrow, tapering rod arising at about half the telopodite length, directed distally and terminating just distal to solenomere tip. Prefemoral process arising from lateral half of telopodite base, a little less than half the width of the base, narrow, very long, bending slightly posterodistally at about half its length and flexing 180° at three-quarters its length to terminate in a bluntly pointed apex not far distal to solenomere tip, the posterolateral edge in the distal half of the process a comb of c. 25–30 long, mainly proximally directed teeth. Uncus large, arising at about one-quarter the length of prefemoral process (just proximal to solenomere tip).
Distribution and habitat. Known from wet eucalypt forest on Mt Cole, 50 km north-west of Ballarat (Fig. 78).
Etymology. Named for my wife, Catriona (Trina) Moule, in gratitude for her help in the field in Tasmania and Victoria.
description: Published as part of Mesibov, Robert, 2005, The millipede genus Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania and Victoria, with descriptions of a new genus and 24 new species, pp. 103-146 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 62 (2) on pages 111-112, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2005.62.4, http://zenodo.org/record/8064747