Victoriocambala Verhoeff, 1944

MESIBOV, ROBERT, 2017, Notes on Victorian Iulomorphidae (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 76, pp. 113-120 : 115

Victoriocambala Verhoeff, 1944

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Victoriocambala Verhoeff, 1944: 35 , 41; Jeekel, 1971: 115; Hoffman, 1980: 91; Jeekel, 1981: 40; Jeekel, 1985: 106, fig 4; Mauriès, 1987: 196, 198; Korsós & Johns, 2009: 3; Jeekel, 2009: 35; Edward & Harvey, 2010: 5; Korsós & Read, 2012: 46.

Type species. Victoriocambala buffalensis Verhoeff, 1944 , by monotypy.

Remarks. Verhoeff (1944, p. 41) noted that his new, monotypic Victoriocambala was most closely related to Amastigogonus Brölemann, 1913 , a then-monotypic Tasmanian genus to which he added two new Tasmanian species. By the time Jeekel (2009) described a second Victorian Victoriocambala species, the number of Tasmanian Amastigogonus species had increased to four ( Hoffman 1972; Mauriès et al .. 2001), and I have since added another six Tasmanian species ( Mesibov, 2017). Consistent and taxonomically useful differences between species in the two genera are listed in Table 1 .

The two Victoriocambala species share several characters with the Tasmanian endemic Equestrigonus tasmaniensis Mesibov, 2017 . In all three cases, there is an apical fringe of long setae on the anterior gonopod telopodite, the leg 7 coxa is not elongated, there is a prominent tab anteriorly on the leg 1 prefemur and the leg 2 coxa, and prefemoral tabs begin on ring 5. E. tasmaniensis differs from the Victoriocambala species in diplosegment sculpture (suture weakly defined, longitudinal metazonite striae curving upwards towards suture), having a prominent setal crown on the posterior gonopod and the coxite process on the anterior gonopod directed posterodistally rather than parallelling the telopodite and protecting the pseudoflagellum ( Mesibov, 2017). It seems likely that in a three-taxon molecular phylogeny, Equestrigonus and Victoriocambala would be more closely related than either is to Amastigogonus .