Antichiropus rupinus Car & Harvey & Hillyer & Huey 2019, n. sp.
Creators: name: Car, Catherine A.
name: Harvey, Mark S.
name: Hillyer, Mia J.
name: Huey, Joel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Paradoxosomatidae
Antichiropus
Antichiropus rupinus

description: Antichiropus rupinus Car, n. sp.
(Figs 31 A–E, 33)
ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 42A3B2D6-4381-44FD-BDDB-A736A64D882C
Type material examined. Australia: Western Australia: holotype male, Karijini National Park, near Ranger’s Station, 22°34’17”S, 118°22’41”E, 14 March 2015, in leaf litter, R. Teale and M. Harvey, et al. (WAM T135512). Paratype: 1 male (damaged), Karijini National Park, ca. 21 km SW of Dale’s Gorge, alt. 700 m, site MAM1, 22°34’16”S, 118°22’37”E, 16 March 2015, dry pitfall trap, M. Hillyer, et al. (WAM T135581, GenBank accession number 12S, MK 735770; 28S, MK 735828; COIII, MK 735949).
Diagnosis. Gonopod: Antichiropus rupinus Car, n. sp. is easily separated from all other Pilbara species because, instead of a prolongation of femorite on the gonopod, this species has 6 small teeth.
Description. Male holotype: Body ca. 15 mm long; midbody ring ca. 2 mm wide, with indistinct, smooth waist, prozonite and metazonite of similar width.
Colour (in alcohol) dark brown, paler ventrally (Fig 31A): leg colour, mid brown. No paranota (Fig 31B).
Sternites without obvious processes/tubercles, sternal lamella broad, rounded. Leg coxal processes absent. Anterior spiracles at midbody, small, ovoid, flat.
Head smooth without noticeable sculpturing; frons sparsely setose; face narrow, maximum width ca. 3x the distance between antennal sockets; sockets separated by ca. 2x width of socket.
Antennae short, reaching to collum, robust, segments 5 and 6 only slightly broader than remainder, short.
Collum 1x length of head (in lateral view) (Fig 31A).
Gonopod of medium length, reaching ring 5; coxa (C) more robust than femorite, 1/2 femorite length with pronounced ridge on anterior surface; prefemur (PF) similar length to coxa, setose, prefemoral lip pronounced; femorite (F) 2/3 acropodite length, upright, slender for proximal half, then broadening slightly to narrow again at solenomere base; main femoral process (MFP) small, upright, pointed (fig); second femoral process (fp1) slender, curved, near femorite apex; prolongation of femorite (prof) represented by 6+ small teeth; solenomere(S) more slender than femorite, C-shaped, narrowing near tip, then broadening to a flattened tip; solenomere process 1 (sp1) near solenomere tip, very slender, curved, pointed (Figs 31 C–E).
Female: Unknown.
Distribution. To date, this species has been found only in the Karijini National Park in the Pilbara region (Fig 33).
Etymology. This species is named for the fact that it was found near one of the gorges in the Karijini National Park (Latin, noun, rupina, rocky chasm).
description: Published as part of Car, Catherine A., Harvey, Mark S., Hillyer, Mia J. & Huey, Joel A., 2019, The millipede genus Antichiropus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), part 3: species of the Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 4617 (1) on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3248154