Species Antichiropus whistleri Attems, 1911

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Antichiropus whistleri 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. [174].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW 3436 ♂ (Broken specimen, with right gonopod missing and left broken), Western Australia, Buckland Hill (near Fremantle), Hamburger sudwet-australischen Forschungsreise Station 114, 1 June 1905, W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer [32°03'S 115°44'E].
  Paralectotype(s) ZMB 5154 1 ♀ (dried, fragmented), Western Australia, Rottnest Island, Hamburger sudwest-australischen Forschungsreise Station 121, 6-13 September 1905, W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer [31°59'S 115°32'E]; WAM T272 1 ♀, Same as lectotype; ZMH 1 ♀, Same as lectotype; ZMH 1 ♂ (Left gonopod intact, right gonopod missing), Western Australia, Upper Blackwood District, Brancaster, 1.V.1909, J.M. Whistler [32°54'S 116°34'E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Car, C.A., Wojcieszek, J.M. & Harvey, M.S. 2013. The millipede genus Antichiropus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), part 1: redefinition of the genus and redescriptions of existing species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 28: 83-118 [103-104].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), 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), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Nothing known, woodland.

 

General References

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

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Jan-2014	PARADOXOSOMATIDAE Daday, 1889	13-Jan-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
05-Mar-2012		05-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2012		12-May-2010	ADDED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)