Species Unixenus mjoebergi (Verhoeff, 1924)

• Monographis mjoebergi Verhoeff, K.W. 1924. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's scientific expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 34. Myriapoda: Diplopoda. Arkiv för Zoologi 16(5): 1-142, pls 1-5 [38].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ 1♀ (specimen used by Duy-Jacquemin & Condé (1967) in their redescription; location of other syntypes unknown), Kimberley District, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Unixenus mjoebergi (Verhoeff, 1924). —
  Duy-Jacquemin, M.N. & Condé, B. 1967. Morphologie et géonémie du genre Monographis Attems. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut ns 64: 43-81 [Date published June 1967] [74] (Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin & Condé do not head their redescription of this species Unixenus mjöbergi on p. 72, instead referring it to Unixenus in their discussion on p. 74. The first use of the combination Unixenus mjöbergi occurs in the caption to fig. 11 on p. 73)

Distribution

States

Western Australia

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

Litter.

General References

Car, C.A., Short, M., Huynh, C. & Harvey, M.S. 2013. The millipedes of Barrow Island, Western Australia (Diplopoda). Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 209–219 [211]

Koch, L.E. 1985. Pincushion millipedes (Diplopoda: Polyxenida): their aggregations and identity in Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 16(2/3): 30-32 [30] (whole animal illustrated and swarming behaviour described)

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