Species Akamptogonus novarae (Humbert & de Saussure, 1869)
- Polydesmus (Strongylosoma) novarae Humbert, A. & de Saussure, H. 1869. Description de divers Myriapodes du Musee de Vienne. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 19: 669-692 [689].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NHMW 3426/3 1♂, 1♀ (Rowe & Sierwald (2006) refer to the male as 'lectotype' but have not explicitly lectotypified the specimen), Auckland, NZ.Secondary source:
Hoffman, R.L. 1979. An Australian polydesmoid milliped in San Francisco (Paradoxosomatidae). Wasmann Journal of Biology 37(1-2): 55-58 [55]. - Zelanodesmus australianus Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [109] [junior subjective synonym of Akamptogonus novarae (Humbert & de Saussure, 1869)].
Type data:
Holotype MCZ 4892 ♂, Sutherland (as Southerland), NSW. - Orthomorpha triaina Attems, C. 1911. Myriopoda exkl. Scolopendridae. In, Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Vol 3(6). Jena : Gustav Fischer Verlag. [178] [junior subjective synonym of Akamptogonus novarae (Humbert & de Saussure, 1869)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMH 3 specimens (see Weidner (1960)), Albany, WA; ZMB 5157 1♂ (fragments) (see Moritz & Fischer (1978)), Albany, WA; WAM T281 1♀, Albany, WA.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Attems, C. 1914. Die indoaustralischen Myriapoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte A 80(4): 1-398 (O. triaina a synonym of A. novarae)
- Jeekel, C.A.W. 1968. On the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the Family Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Amsterdam : C.A.W. Jeekel vii 162 pp. [23] (Z. australianus a synonym of A. novarae)
Generic Combinations
- Akamptogonus novarae (Humbert & de Saussure, 1869). —
Attems, C. 1914. Die indoaustralischen Myriapoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte A 80(4): 1-398 [222]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Believed to originate in eastern Australia, introduced into WA and scattered Pacific locations; see Hoffman, R.L. 1979. An Australian polydesmoid milliped in San Francisco (Paradoxosomatidae). Wasmann Journal of Biology 37(1-2): 55-58.
IBRA
NSW, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)
Other Regions
Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Litter.
General References
Hoffman, R.L. 1979. An Australian polydesmoid milliped in San Francisco (Paradoxosomatidae). Wasmann Journal of Biology 37(1-2): 55-58 [55] (recorded from San Francisco, USA)
Johns, P.M. 1967. A note on the introduced millipedes of New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist 3: 60-62 [61] (recorded from Norfolk Island and a number of New Zealand localities)
Mesibov, R. & Car, C.A. 2015. A new genus and species of native exotic millipede in Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 498: 7–16 [7]
Moritz, M. & Fischer, S. 1978. Die Typen der Myriapoden-Sammlung des Zoologisches Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 4: Polydesmida (Paradoxosomatidea, Sphaeriodesmidea, Polydesmidea). Teil 5: Ergänzungen (Teile 1 bis 3). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 54(1): 99-160
Rowe, M. & Sierwald, P. 2006. Morphological and systematic study of the tribe Australiosomatini (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidea: Paradoxosomatidae) and a revision of the genus Australiosoma Brölemann. Invertebrate Systematics 20: 527-556
Shelley, R.M., Bauer, S.B. & Swift, S.F. 1998. The milliped family Paradoxosomatidae in the Hawaiian Islands (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 56: 43-53 [47] (recorded from Hawaii)
Weidner, H. 1960. Die entomologische Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg. III. Chilopoda und Progoneata. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 58: 57-104
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