Genus Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910

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• Agathodesmus Silvestri, F. 1910. Descrizioni preliminari di nuovi generi di Diplopodi. I. Polydesmoidea. Zoologischer Anzeiger 35: 357-364 [362].

  Type species:

   Agathodesmus steeli Silvestri, 1910 by original designation.
• Atopogonus Carl, J. 1926. Diplopoden von Neu-Caledonien und den Loyalty-Inseln. pp. 367-459 in Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (eds). Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. A. Zoologie. Vol. 4(3). Munich : C.W. Kreidel's Verlag 462 pp. [371] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Atopogonus baccatus Carl, 1926 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mesibov, R. 2009. Revision of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae). ZooKeys 12: 87-110 [92]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD) ; NSW, Vic: South East Corner (SEC) ; Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB) ; Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

General References

Attems, C. 1914. Die indoaustralischen Myriapoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte A 80(4): 1-398 [282]

Attems, C. 1940. Polydesmoidea. III. Fam. Polydesmidae, Vanhoeffeniidae, Cryptodesmidae, Oniscodesmidae, Sphaerotrichopidae, Peridontodesmidae, Rhachidesmidae, Macellolophidae, Pandirodesmidae. Das Tierreich 70: i-xxxii, 1-577 [487]

Brölemann, H.W. 1916. Essai de classification des Polydesmiens (Myriapodes). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 84: 523-608 [547, 587]

Golovatch, S.I., Geoffroy, J.-J., Mauriès, J.-P. & VandenSpiegel, D. 2009. Review of the millipede family Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895, with descriptions of some new or poorly-known species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). ZooKeys 7: 1-53 [2]

Hoffman, R.L. 1980. Classification of the Diplopoda. Geneva : Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève 238 pp. [184]

Jeekel, C.A.W. 1971. Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: a list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 5: i-xii, 1-412 [Date published 15 February 1971] [310]

Jeekel, C.A.W. 1982. Millipedes from Australia, 4: A new genus and species of the family Dalodesmidae from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 9(2): 9-15 [11]

Jeekel, C.A.W. 1983. Millipedes from Australia, 8: A new genus and species of the family Dalodesmidae from Victoria (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 9(16): 145-151 [146]

Jeekel, C.A.W. 1985. Millipedes from Australia, 9: A new polydesmoid millipede from Queensland (Diplopoda, Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae). Entomologische Berichten (Amsterdam) 45: 50-55 [50, 51] (Agathodesmus placed in Haplodesmidae without subfamily assignment)

Jeekel, C.A.W. 1986. Millipedes from Australia, 10: Three interesting new species and a new genus (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida, Spirobolida, Polydesmida). Beaufortia 36(3): 35-50 [Date published 30 September 1986] [46]

Mesibov, R. 2013. New species of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae). ZooKeys 325: 33–64

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