Species Somethus castaneus (Attems, 1944)

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• Australiosoma castaneum Attems, C. 1944. Neue Polydesmoidea. Zoologischer Anzeiger 144: 223-251 [249, Fig. 40].
• Oncocladosoma castaneum castaneum Decker P. 2016. Integrative taxonomic revision of the polymorphic flat-millipede genera Oncocladosoma and Somethus in South Australia (Diplopoda : Polydesmida : Paradoxosomatidae). Invertebrate Systematics 30: 201-218.
• Oncocladosoma castaneum ingens Jeekel, C.A.W. 1985. Millipedes from Australia, 5: Australiosomatini from South Australia, with a note on the status of Polydesmus innotatus Karsch, and first record of a Mediterranean julid in Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae and Julida, Julidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 19-37 [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA OM1233 ♂, near Mt Lofty Station, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA OM1234–OM1263, OM1271-OM1275, OM1308–OM1325 Several, Numerous.
• Oncocladosoma clavigerum Jeekel, C.A.W. 1985. Millipedes from Australia, 5: Australiosomatini from South Australia, with a note on the status of Polydesmus innotatus Karsch, and first record of a Mediterranean julid in Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae and Julida, Julidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 19-37 [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA OM1277 ♂ (sample missing), Belair, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA OM1277–OM1295 11 ♂, 5 ♀, 2 juvv., same as holotype; ZMA 5 ♂, 3 ♀, same as holotype; SAMA OM1268–OM1270 2 ♂, 1 ♀, Blackwood, South Australia; SAMA OM1296, OM1297 2 ♂, Woodleys Vineyard, near Glen Osmond, South Australia; SAMA OM1276 ♂, Sellicks Hill, South Australia.
• Oncocladosoma conigerum Jeekel, C.A.W. 1985. Millipedes from Australia, 5: Australiosomatini from South Australia, with a note on the status of Polydesmus innotatus Karsch, and first record of a Mediterranean julid in Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae and Julida, Julidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 19-37 [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA OM1299 ♂ ("Without locality label, but found in a tube together with O. castaneum ingens" (Jeekel, 1985)), near Mt Lofty Station, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 4 ♂, 1 ♀, same as holotype; SAMA 6 ♂, 2 ♀, without locality label.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Decker P. 2016. Integrative taxonomic revision of the polymorphic flat-millipede genera Oncocladosoma and Somethus in South Australia (Diplopoda : Polydesmida : Paradoxosomatidae). Invertebrate Systematics 30: 201-218 [214]

Generic Combinations

• Oncocladosoma castaneum. —
  Jeekel, C.A.W. 1985. Millipedes from Australia, 5: Australiosomatini from South Australia, with a note on the status of Polydesmus innotatus Karsch, and first record of a Mediterranean julid in Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae and Julida, Julidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 19-37 [26-31]
• Somethus castaneum castaneum (Attems, 1944).
• Somethus clavigerum (Jeekel, 1985).
• Somethus conigerum (Jeekel, 1985).
• Somethus castaneum ingens (Jeekel, 1985).

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Jeekel, C.A.W. 1985. Millipedes from Australia, 5: Australiosomatini from South Australia, with a note on the status of Polydesmus innotatus Karsch, and first record of a Mediterranean julid in Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae and Julida, Julidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 19-37 [27]

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Nothing known.

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