New species of Boreohesperus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) from north-western Australia

  • Catherine A. Car Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986
  • Mark S. Harvey Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986; Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024; Research Associate, Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118; Adjunct, School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.320
Keywords: taxonomy, morphology, short-range endemism, millipede, gonopod

Abstract

To date, six species of the Australian endemic millipede genus Boreohesperus have been recognized: all have highly localized distributions, consistent with being short-range endemic species, and all are from the Cape Range and Pilbara region of Western Australia. In this paper, we describe three new species, B. alcyonis sp. nov., B. psittacinus sp. nov., and B. vascellus sp. nov., each from a different island in the Kimberley region of north-western Australia.

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Published
2017-05-22
How to Cite
Car, C. A., & Harvey, M. S. (2017). New species of Boreohesperus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) from north-western Australia. European Journal of Taxonomy, (320). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.320
Issue
No. 320 (2017): New species of Boreohesperus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) from north-western Australia
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Zoology
Copyright (c) 2017 Catherine A. Car, Mark S. Harvey

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