Subgenus Cladethosoma (Cladethosoma) Chamberlin, 1920

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• Cladethosoma Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [105] [first introduced as a subgenus of Australiosoma Brolemann, 1913].

  Type species:

   Australiosoma (Cladethosoma) clarum Chamberlin, 1920 by monotypy.
• Leucotessara Verhoeff, K.W. 1928. On Diplopoda in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 16(2): 79-115, pls 6-12 [Date published 24 January 1928] [90] [junior subjective synonym of Cladethosoma Chamberlin, 1920].

  Type species:

   Leucotessara lucida Verhoeff, 1928 by monotypy.
• Walestessara Verhoeff, K.W. 1937. Ueber einige neue Diplopoden aus Australien. Records of the Australian Museum 20(2): 133-149 [137] [junior subjective synonym of Cladethosoma Chamberlin, 1920].

  Type species:

   Hoplatessara (Walestessara) cruciata Verhoeff, 1937 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [24] (Walestessara a junior subjective synonym of Leucotessara)
• Jeekel, C.A.W. 1979. Notes on the classification of some little-known Australian paradoxosomatid genera (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Journal of Natural History 13: 649-658 [649] (Leucotessara a junior subjective synonym of Cladethosoma)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB) ; NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD) ; NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Vic: Flinders (FLI), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

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