Atelomastix mainae 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 mainae

description: <i>Atelomastix mainae</i>, sp. nov. Figs. 5, 64, 110, 111. <i>Atelomastix albanyensis</i> Attems 1911: 194–195 (in part). <b>Type material:</b> AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: holotype male, Albany, Mount Clarence, 35°01’24”S, 117°53’53”E, hand collected under rotting logs and bark, 23 July 2003, K.L. Edward (WAM T 47955). Paratypes: 9 males, 21 females, collected with holotype (WAM T 69596); 1 male, collected with holotype (WAM T 69589). <b>Other material examined:</b> AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 6 males, collected with holotype (WAM T69587, T69588, T69590 - T 69593); 10 males, Albany, Mount Melville, 35°00’56”S, 117°52’05”E, hand collected under rotting logs and bark, 23 July 2003, K.L. Edward (WAM T 69597 - T69601, T69629 – T 69633); 17 males, Albany, Torndirrup National Park, 35°05’17”S, 117°53’40”E, hand collected under rotting logs and bark, 23 July 2003, K.L. Edward (WAM T 69585); 9 males, Albany, Torndirrup National Park, 35°05’17”S, 117°53’40”E, hand collected under rotting logs and bark, 23 July 2003, K.L. Edward (WAM T 69575 – T69578, T69580 – T 69584); 1 male, Albany, Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise, Station 165, 35°01’S, 117°53’E, 13 August 1905, W. Michaelsen, R. Hartmeyer (WAM 13 /7145; paralectotype of <i>A. albanyensis</i>); 7 males, Elleker, Marbelup Nature Reserve, 34°59’11”S, 117°43’38”E, hand collected under rotting logs, 26 July 2003, K.L. Edward (WAM T 69551 – T69554, T69742, T69743, T69788); 3 males, Torbay, near West Cape Howe National Park, 35°04’45”S, 117°37’32”E, hand collected under rotting logs and bark of live karri trees, 25 July 2003, K.L. Edward, B.Y. Main (WAM T 69564); 7 males, Torbay, near West Cape Howe National Park, 35°04’45”S, 117°37’32”E, hand collected under rotting logs and bark of live karri trees, 25 July 2003, K.L. Edward, B.Y. Main (WAM T 69558 – T69563, T69565); 6 males, Torbay, near West Cape Howe National Park, 35°04’39”S, 117°37’21”E, hand collected under rotting logs, 25 July 2003, K.L. Edward, B.Y. Main (WAM T 69566 – T 69571); 1 male, Torbay Head, Lot 40, west side of granite, 35°04’S, 117°37’E, wet pitfall trap, 20 April–14 May 1987, B.Y. Main (WAM T 69574). <b>Etymology:</b> The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Barbara York Main who has made significant contributions to our knowledge of historical biogeography in southwestern Western Australia. <b>Diagnosis:</b> <i>Atelomastix mainae</i> is similar to <i>A. attemsi</i>, but differs in the shape and size of the lateral and medial processes of sclerite <i>c</i>. In this species the lateral and medial processes of sclerite <i>c</i> are asymmetrical with the lateral process longer and thinner than the medial process, whereas in <i>A. attemsi</i> the lateral process is broader and similar in length to the medial process. The basal process of sclerite <i>b</i> also differs in shape. <i>Atelomastix mainae</i> has a broad triangular process with a rounded tip 0.14 times the size of the main process, whereas <i>A. attemsi</i> has a longer, thinner process, 0.23 times the size of the main process. <b>Description:</b> <i>Male (holotype).</i> Colour: Collum and anal segment dark brown; head, mouth parts, antennae, gonopod, ozopores and legs light golden-brown; prozonites blue-grey, metazonites brown to blue-grey. Body: ca. 17 mm long and ca. 1.4 mm wide at collum. With 38 trunk segments, 65 pairs of legs, last 2 segments without legs. Head: with ca. 29 ocelli (Fig. 64), arranged in 4 rows (2: 5: 5: 7). Gonopods: anterior gonopods (Figs. 110, 111) small and complex in structure, 2.59 times longer than broad; sclerite <i>a</i> with swollen base and broad, curved distal hood; upper distal face of sclerite <i>a</i> with 18 short blunt setae; pseudoflagellum short, broad, and partially concealed within broadened distal hood; sclerite <i>b</i> elongate, curving to rounded hook at distal end, with 2–7 setae on subdistal edge (n=3); basal process of sclerite <i>b</i> short, triangular, with rounded end, 0.14 times length of main process; sclerite <i>c</i> shallowly bifurcate, same height as sclerite <i>b</i>, lateral and medial process asymmetrical, but both tapering to a blunt rounded tip, with 3–4 setae (n=3) positioned below division of lateral and medial processes; one setae present at sub basal end of sclerite <i>c</i>, where sclerites overlap; posterior gonopods inconspicuous, small, with several small setae on interno-lateral face of each gonopod. Dimensions (mm): holotype male (paratype male, WAM T69589): length ca. 17, width ca. 1.3 (L/ W=13.1); sclerite <i>a</i> 0.928 / 0.358 (0.855 / 0.352), setae 18; sclerite <i>b</i> 0.410 (0.395), basal process of sclerite <i>b</i> 0.057 (0.053), setae 7 (2); sclerite <i>c</i> 0.590 (0.621), lateral process of sclerite <i>c</i> 0.137(0.131), medial process of sclerite <i>c</i> 0.074 (0.086), setae 3 (4). <i>Female</i>. Similar to male, other than sexual characters, and slightly larger. <b>Distribution and habitat:</b> This species has a coastal distribution from Torbay to Albany along the south coast of Western Australia (Fig. 5). Specimens can be found in mixed karri (<i>Eucalyptus diversicolor</i>) forest, mixed jarrah (<i>E. marginata</i>), blackbutt (<i>E. patens</i>) and marri (<i>Corymbia calophylla</i>) open woodland, and on granite outcrops. Collections of this species were from under rotting logs, under bark of fallen logs, under bark of live karri (<i>Eucalyptus diversicolor</i>) trees, and under leaf litter.
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 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2371.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5312214
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