Genus Australobius Chamberlin, 1920

Museums

Regional Maps

• Australobius Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [75].
• Tamulinus Attems, C.G. 1926. Myriapoda. pp. 239-402 in Kükenthal, W. & Krumbach, T. (eds). Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches. Progoneata, Chilopoda, Insecta I. Berlin & Leipzig : Walter de Gruyter & Co. Vol. 4(1). [384].
• Burmobius Chamberlin, R.V. 1944. Some chilopods from the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Notulae Naturae, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 147: 1-14 [13].
• Alloporodontius Verhoeff, K.W. 1937. Chilopoden aus Malacca, nach den Objecten des Raffles Museum in Singapore. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 13: 198-270 [241].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Attems, C.G. 1953. Myriopoden von Indochina Expedition von C. Dawydoff (1938-1939). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] A(5): 133-199 [151] (synonymy of Tamulinus)
• Eason, E.H. 1978. On Lithobiidae from the Seychelles with descriptions of two new species of the subgenus Australobius, genus Lithobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). Journal of Zoology, London 184: 21-34 [23] (synonymy of Tamulinus)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Seychelles

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Victoria
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Nepal

Palaearctic Region

• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan (= Kirgizia)

General References

Attems, C.G. 1938. Die von Dr C. Dawydoff in franzosisch Indochina gesammelten Myriapoden. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] N.S. 6(2): 187-353 [344] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Tamulinus as subgenus of Lithobius Leach, 1814)

Eason, E.H. 1980. Zoological results of the British Speleological Expedition to Papua New Guinea, 1975. A new species of the subgenus Australobius, genus Lithobius (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha) from Papua New Guinea. Myriapodologica 1: 41-46 (Australobius distribution)

Eason, E.H. 1986. The Lithobiidae of Thailand with descriptions of six new species of Lithobius and Australobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiidae). Steenstrupia 12: 129-151 (Australobius distribution)

Eason, E.H. 1989. Lithobiidae from the Nepal Himalayas with descriptions of ten new species of Lithobius and Australobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 116: 335-372 (Australobius distribution)

Eason, E.H. 1993. Description of four new species of Lithobius from th Oriental Region and a redescription of Australobius palnis (Eason, 1973) fom Sri Lanka. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 17: 181-200 (Australobius distribution)

Eason, E.H. 1997. On some Lithobiomorpha from the mountains of Kirghizia and Kazakstan (Chilopoda). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 117-121 (Australobius distribution)

Verhoeff, K.W. 1937. Chilopoden aus Malacca, nach den Objecten des Raffles Museum in Singapore. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 13: 198-270 [241] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as a subgenus of Lithobius Leach, 1814)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)