Paraplatyarthrus subterraneus Javidkar and King, 2015

Fig. 2 H.

Paraplatyarthrus subterraneus Javidkar and King, in Javidkar et al. 2015: 567 .

Type material. Holotype: Male, WAM C53623 (BES15525.19), Laverton Downs Windarra calcrete, Eastern Murchison region , Western Australia, Australia; 28.50282°S, 122.17726°E, 13 July 2010, coll. W.F. Humphreys & S.J.B. Cooper, deposited in the Western Australian Museum.

Paratypes: 5 males (WAM C53624, BES15525.24; WAM C53625, BES15525.16; WAM C53626, BES15525.12; WAM C53627, BES15525.2; WAM C53628, BES15525.3), 1 female (WAM C53629, BES15525.4), BES15525.20 held on SEM stubs (sex unknown); same locality and collectors’ as holotype, all deposited in the Western Australian Museum.

Diagnosis. Body pale without pigmentation. Eyeless (no ommatidia) (Fig. 2 H).

Remarks. Paraplatyarthrus subterraneus is distinguished from other described Paraplatyarthrus species with a combination of characters including a pale body with no pigmentation, no ommatidia in cephalothorax and a delimiting line in maxilla 2. The body length varies between 3.0 and 3.8 mm. It is restricted to a single calcrete aquifer, Laverton Downs, Eastern Murchison region, Western Australia.