A new species of the Gondwanan centipede Anopsobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New South Wales, Australia

Anopsobius wrighti n. sp., from the New England and Washpool-Gibraltar Range regions of northern New South Wales, is the first Australian species of the Gondwanan genus Anopsobius Silvestri, 1899 (Henicopidae: Anopsobiinae). Anopsobius is also known from Chile, Argentina, the Falkland Islands, South...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Zootaxa
Main Author: EDGECOMBE, GREGORY D.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Mangolia Press 2003
Subjects:
Myriapoda
Chilopoda
Lithobiomorpha
Henicopidae
Anopsobiinae
Anopsobius
Anopsobius wrighti
taxonomy
New Zealand
Argentina
Auckland Islands
Online Access:http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.204.1.1
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.204.1.1
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Summary:Anopsobius wrighti n. sp., from the New England and Washpool-Gibraltar Range regions of northern New South Wales, is the first Australian species of the Gondwanan genus Anopsobius Silvestri, 1899 (Henicopidae: Anopsobiinae). Anopsobius is also known from Chile, Argentina, the Falkland Islands, South Africa, New Zealand, and the Chatham and Auckland Islands. The new species is closely related to the New Zealand species A. neozelanicus Silvestri, 1909.

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