A new and unusual species of Amastigogonus Brolemann, 1913 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Iulomorphidae).

ABSTRACT: Amastigogonus insularissp. n. is described from Schouten and Tasman Islands off the east coast of Tasmania, and a key is presented for the identification of males of Tasmanian Amastigogonus species. The new species differs from the 10 previously described species of Amastigogonus in having a reduced coxite process on the anterior gonopod.

SUBMITTER: Mesibov R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5672570 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature