Golovatch, S. I.; Akkari, N. (2024). New records of the millipede genus Aschistodesmus Pocock, 1898 from the Solomon Islands, Melanesia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae). Arthropoda Selecta. 33(2): 149-159.
New records of the millipede genus Aschistodesmus Pocock, 1898 from the Solomon Islands, Melanesia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)
Arthropoda Selecta
33(2): 149-159
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Two species of the Papuan genus Aschistodesmus are recorded, redescribed and illustrated: A. vinctus (Attems, 1934), from Guadalcanal (Isatabu) Island, and A. spatulifer Jeekel, 2000, from Choiseul (Lauru) Island, both Solomon Islands. The previously enigmatic provenance of A. spatulifer is established to be from Choiseul. The following formal synonymy is advanced: A. signatus extinctus (Attems, 1932) = A. signatus signatus (Attems, 1897), syn.n.