Abstract
Eight species of polydesmoid millipeds are described from the caves of the extreme northwestern corner of Papua New Guinea. Four new genera are named: in Paradoxosomatidae, Selminosoma, type S. chapmani; Astromontosoma, type A. jeekeli; in Doratodesmidae, Scolopopyge, type S. pholeter; Selminarchus, type S. hispidus. Two additional new species are referred to established genera Eustrongylosoma exiguum and Nothrosoma beroni, the latter, however, (known only from females) is probably referable to a new genus. Selminosoma chapmani appears both from its structure and biology to be a true troglobite, the first such species known in the Paradoxosomatidae. The two doratodesmid species extend the known range of this family eastward across Wallace’s Line from west Java.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.9.3.7
Recommended Citation
Hoffman, Richard L..
1977.
Diplopoda from Papuan Caves (Zoological Results of the British Speleological Expedition to Papua-New Guinea, 1975, 4).
International Journal of Speleology,
9: 281-307.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol9/iss3/7
