Tasmanocambala taylori, Mesibov, Robert, 2018

Mesibov, Robert, 2018, Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida), ZooKeys 827, pp. 1-17 : 1

Tasmanocambala taylori sp. n. Fig. 2C, F

Holotype.

Male in 3 pieces, anterior portions in genitalia vial, Badgers Hill, Flinders Island, Tasmania, -40.0275 148.0233 ± 100 m, ca 200 m a.s.l., 31 August 1993, R.J. Taylor, QVMAG QVM:2018:23:0115.

Paratypes.

In QVMAG: 2 females, details as for holotype, QVM:2017:23:0041.

Other material.

18 males, 41 females and 3 juveniles from 11 other sites on Flinders Island and 4 sites on Prime Seal Island, in QVMAG and TMAG; see Supplement 1 for details.

Name.

In honour of Robert Taylor, collector of the type specimens. During his 13 years in Tasmania, Taylor instigated and managed a number of forest conservation projects that employed the author and other local zoologists as field workers and specimen processors. Material collected for those projects has been a valuable taxonomic resource for the author and others, and will continue to be valuable for years to come.

Diagnosis.

Distinguished from T. tasmanica n. sp. by the absence of annular prozonite striae and from T. greeni n. sp. by the strong mediad curvature and greater narrowing of the tip of the anterior gonopod coxa.

Description.

As for the genus, with the following details: male/female to 55+1/52+1 rings, 1.4/1.8 mm in midbody diameter. Anterior gonopod with tip of coxa curving strongly medially and narrowing (Fig. 2F); 3-4 apical telopodite setae behind tab on medial side.

Distribution.

So far known from Flinders and Prime Seal Islands at the eastern end of Bass Strait between Tasmania and Victoria (Fig. 5A).

Remarks.

Tasmanodesmus taylori sp. n. is not greatly different from central Tasmanian forms of T. greeni n. sp., and the narrowing of the tip of the anterior gonopod coxa is variable from specimen to specimen.