References
Links after some of the references:
BHL = in the online Biodiversity Heritage Library, starting at the linked page
DOI = online at the journal website
PDF = downloadable from the journal website
The taxonomy references are the principal ones for individual species and include descriptions and redescriptions. References are listed chronologically within each order. For complete synonymies and citations to 2019, download the archived Millipedes of Australia website from Zenodo.
DISTRIBUTION
Mesibov, R. (1994) Faunal breaks in Tasmania and their significance for invertebrate conservation. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 36(1): 133-136.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time
BHL
Mesibov, R. (1997) A zoogeographical singularity at Weavers Creek, Tasmania. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 56: 563-573.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time
BHL
Mesibov, R. (1999) The Mersey Break: an unexplained faunal boundary on the north coast of Tasmania. In Ponder, W. and Lunney, D. (eds.), The Other 99%. The Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman (NSW): Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales; pp. 246-252.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time
Mesibov, R. (2008) On millipedes and sense of place. The Tasmanian Naturalist 130: 2-9.
Various species; GIS exercise showing that overlapping millipede mosaics delimit fairly small areas in Tasmania
BHL
Mesibov, R. (2011) A remarkable case of mosaic parapatry in millipedes. ZooKeys 156: 71-84.
Tasmaniosoma compitale, T. hickmanorum in northwest Tasmania
DOI
Mesibov, R. (2020) A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 930: 89-101.
Tasmaniosoma armatum, T. orientale in northeast Tasmania DOI
ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
Mesibov, R., Taylor, R.J. and Brereton, R.N. (1995) Relative efficiency of pitfall trapping and hand-collecting from plots for sampling of millipedes. Biodiversity and Conservation 4: 429-439.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time
Mesibov, R. (1998) Species-level comparison of litter invertebrates at two rainforest sites in Tasmania. Tasforests 10: 141-157.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time
Mesibov, R. (2001) The Milabena Marvel, or why single-species conservation is inappropriate for cryptic invertebrates. The Tasmanian Naturalist 123:16-23.
Comments on the first searches for Propolyxenus forsteri in Tasmania
Bonham, K.J., Mesibov, R. and Bashford, R. (2002) Diversity and abundance of ground-dwelling invertebrates in plantation vs. native forests in Tasmania, Australia. Forest Ecology and Management 158: 237-247.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time
Mesibov, R., Bonham, K.J., Doran, N., Meggs, J., Munks, S., Otley, H. and Richards, K. (2002) Single-species sampling in Tasmania: an inefficient approach to invertebrate conservation? Invertebrate Systematics 16: 655-663.
Sampling of Lissodesmus alisonae is included
Mesibov, R. and Churchill, T. (2003) Patterns in pitfall captures of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) at coastal heathland sites in Tasmania. Australian Zoologist 32(3): 431-438.
Notodesmus scotius, Pogonosternum jeekeli (as Pogonosternum sp.) PDF
Mesibov, R. (2005) Native species dominate the millipede fauna in a second-rotation Pinus radiata plantation in Tasmania, Australia. Pacific Conservation Biology 11:17-22.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time
Mesibov, R. (2007) The Trafalgar millipede Lissodesmus johnsi Mesibov, 2006 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae). Victorian Naturalist 124(4): 197-203.
Not Tasmanian, but worth a read
BHL
Mesibov, R. (2008) Millipede salvage in southwest Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 125(4): 96-103.
Not Tasmanian, but worth a read
BHL
Mesibov, R. (2012) 71 new Tasmanians. The Tasmanian Naturalist 134: 14-15.
Comments on undescribed Polydesmida
BHL
Mesibov, R. (2015) Where should I collect millipedes next? The Tasmanian Naturalist 137: 91-93.
GIS exercise on sampling site distributions
BHL
Mesibov, R. (2017) A note on the millipedes of Reid Street Reserve, West Ulverstone. The Tasmanian Naturalist 139: 71-73.
Various species in a suburban reserve
BHL
Jones, T.H., Guthrie, D.M., Hogan, C.T., Robinson, D.J., Mesibov, R., Shear, W.A., Spande, T.F. and Saporito, R.A. (2018) The chemistry of some dalodesmidean millipedes from Tasmania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Journal of Natural Products 81: 171-177.
Defensive secretions of Asphalidesmus leae, Atalopharetra johnsi, Bromodesmus catrionae, B. rufus, Dasystigma margaretae, Gasterogramma austrinum, G. imber, G. plomleyi, G. psi, G. rusticum, G. wynyardense, Lissodesmus alisonae, L. perporosus, Tasmaniosoma armatum
TAXONOMY
Polyxenida
Silvestri, F. (1923) Notizia della presenza del genere Synxenus (Myriapoda, Diplopoda) in Catalogna e descrizione di quattro specie. Treballs del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona 4(5): 5-15.
Phryssonotus novaehollandiae (as Synxenus Novaehollandiae)
Condé, B. (1951) Un Pénicillate inédit de Nouvelle-Zélande (Myriapodes, Diplopodes). Records of the Canterbury Museum 6(1): 9-14.
Propolyxenus forsteri
Short, M. and Huynh, C. (2010) Revision of the genus Propolyxenus Silvestri with description of a new species. International Journal of Myriapodology 3: 1-17.
Propolyxenus australis, P. forsteri
Short, M. and Huynh, C. (2011) The genus Unixenus Jones, 1944 (Diplopoda, Penicillata, Polyxenida) in Australia. ZooKeys 156: 105-122.
Unixenus corticolus DOI
Huynh, C. and Veenstra, A.A. (2018) Two new species of Phryssonotus (Diplopoda : Synxenidae) from southern and western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 65(4): 248-256.
Phryssonotus australis, P. novaehollandiae
Sphaerotheriida
Silvestri, F. (1917) Materiali per una revisione dei Diplopoda Oniscomorpha. II. Specie di Sphaeroteridae delle regioni australiana e neozelandese a me note. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scoula Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici 12: 61-85.
Procyliosoma leae, P. tasmanicum BHL
Wesener, T. and VandenSpiegel, D. (2009) A first phylogenetic analysis of Giant Pill-Millipedes (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida), a new model Gondwanan taxon, with special emphasis on island gigantism. Cladistics 25(6): 545-573.
Procyliosoma leae, undescribed Procyliosoma
Wesener, T. (2014) A new phylogenetic analysis of the Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda) with a revision of the Australian giant pill-millipedes. Invertebrate Systematics 28: 196-213.
Procyliosoma leae, undescribed Procyliosoma
Wesener, T. (2016) The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida – An annotated species catalogue with morphological atlas and list of apomorphies (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). Bonn Zoological Bulletin - Supplementum 63: 1-104.
Procyliosoma leae, P. tasmanicum PDF
Spirostreptida
Gervais, P. (1847) Myriapodes. Pp. 1-333, 577-595 in: Walckenaer, D.A. and Gervais, P. (eds), Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Aptères 4. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris.
Amastigogonus verreauxii (as Iulus Verreauxii)
BHL (first part) and BHL (second part)
Brölemann, H.W. (1913) The Myriapoda in the Australian Museum. Part ii. Diplopoda. Records of the Australian Museum 10(6): 77-158, pls 14-18.
Amastigogonus tasmanianus BHL (text) and BHL (plates)
Chamberlin, R.V. (1920) The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64(1): 1-269.
Amastigogonus hardyi (as Euethogonus hardyi) BHL
Verhoeff, K.W. (1944) Zur Kenntnis der Cambaliden und über einige neue australische Formen derselben. Zoologischer Anzeiger 145: 27-45.
Amastigogonus hardyi (as Amastigogonus nichollsii), Amastigogonus fossuliger
Hoffman, R.L. (1972) On the identity of three genera of cambaloid millipeds from the Australian region (Spirostreptida). Psyche (Cambridge) 79: 200-208.
Amastigogonus hardyi BHL
Mauriès, J.-P., Golovatch, S.I. and Hoffman, R.L. (2001) On type material and the identity of several Iulus species in the collection of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirobolida). Zoosystema 23(3): 579-589.
Amastigogonus verreauxii PDF
Mesibov, R. (2017) Iulomorphid millipedes (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Iulomorphidae) of Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 652: 1-36.
Amastigogonus danpicola, A. elephas, A. fossuliger, A. hardyi, A. hellyeri, A. michaelsae, A. orientalis, A. peninsulensis, A. tasmanianus, A. verreauxii, Atelomastix bonhami, A. smithi, Equestrigonus tasmaniensis DOI
Mesibov, R. (2017) A new and unusual species of Amastigogonus Brölemann, 1913 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Iulomorphidae). ZooKeys 687: 45-51.
Amastigogonus insularis DOI
Mesibov, R. (2019) Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida). ZooKeys 827: 1-17.
Tasmanocambala greeni, T. tasmanica, T. taylori, Talomius weldensis DOI
Chordeumatida
Golovatch, S.I. (1986) The first Chordeumatida (Diplopoda) from Tasmania, with the description of a new genus and three new species. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 113: 251-264.
Australeuma jeekeli, A. simile, Nesiothrix tasmanica (as Schedotrigona tasmanica)
Shear, W.A. and Mesibov, R. (1994) Australian chordeumatidan millipeds. I. New observations on the genus Peterjohnsia Mauriès, with the description of a new species from Tasmania (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Peterjohnsiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 535-544.
Peterjohnsia titan
Shear, W.A. and Mesibov, R. (1995) Australian chordeumatidan millipeds. II. A new species of Reginaterreuma Mauriès from Tasmania (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Metopidiotrichidae). Myriapodologica 3(8): 71-77.
Reginaterreuma tarkinensis PDF
Shear, W.A. and Mesibov, R. (1997) Australian chordeumatidan millipedes. III. A review of the millipede family Metopidiotrichidae Attems in Australia (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida). Invertebrate Taxonomy 11: 141-178.
Australeuma golovatchi, A. jeekeli, A. mauriesi, A. simile, Neocambrisoma cacchinus, N. fieldensis, Nesiothrix mangana, N. medialis, N. tasmanica, Reginaterreuma tarkinensis, Peterjohnsia titan
Polydesmida
Carl, J. (1902) Exotische Polydesmiden. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10(2): 563-679, pls 10-12.
Pogonosternum nigrovirgatum (as Strongylosoma nigrovirgatum)
BHL article and BHL plates
Silvestri, F. (1910) Descrizioni preliminari di nuovi generi di Diplopodi. I. Polydesmoidea. Zoologischer Anzeiger 35: 357-364.
Asphalidesmus leae BHL
Chamberlin, R.V. (1920) The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64(1): 1-269.
Asphalidesmus parvus (as Atopodesmus parvus), Lissodesmus modestus, Notodesmus scotius, Tasmanodesmus hardyi BHL
Verhoeff, K.W. (1936) Die Sphaerotrichopidae der südlichen Halbkugel und ihre Beziehungen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 114(1/2): 1-14.
Tasmaniosoma armatum
Jeekel, C.A.W. (1965) A new genus and a new species of the family Paradoxosomatidae from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Entomologische Berichten (Amsterdam) 25: 7-14.
Pogonosternum nigrovirgatum
Jeekel, C.A.W. (1982) Millipedes from Australia, 2: Antichiropodini from Victoria (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 8(24): 201-212.
Dicranogonus pix PDF
Jeekel, C.A.W. (1982) Millipedes from Australia, 4: A new genus and species of the family Dalodesmidae from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 9(2): 9-15.
Gasterogramma psi PDF
Jeekel, C.A.W. (1984) Millipedes from Australia, 7: The identity of the genus Lissodesmus Chamberlin, with the description of four new species from Tasmania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 118: 85-101.
Lissodesmus adrianae, L. alisonae, Dasystigma margaretae (as Lissodesmus margaretae), L. modestus, L. perporosus PDF
Mesibov, R. (2002) Redescriptions of Asphalidesmus leae Silvestri, 1910 and A parvus (Chamberlin, 1920) comb. nov. from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Haplodesmidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 59(2): 531-540.
Asphalidesmus leae, A. parvus BHL
Mesibov, R. (2003) Two new and unusual genera of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) from Tasmania, Australia. Zootaxa 368: 1-32.
Paredrodesmus aceriodendron, P. australis, P. bicalcar, P. monticolus, P. purpureus, P. taurulus, Procophorella bashfordi, P. innupta
Mesibov, R. (2003) A new genus of Tasmanian millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) with unusual spiracles and a mosaic distribution. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60(2): 197-206.
Dasystigma bonhami, D. huonense, D. margaretae, D. tyleri BHL
Mesibov, R. (2003) The millipede genus Gasterogramma (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) in Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of seven new species. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60(2): 207-219.
Gasterogramma austrinum, G. extremum, G. imber, G. plomleyi, G. psi, G. rusticum, G. tarkinense, G. wynyardense BHL
Mesibov, R. (2004) Redescription of Tasmanodesmus hardyi Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae). Myriapodologica 8(3): 21-36.
Tasmanodesmus hardyi PDF
Mesibov, R. (2004) A new genus of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia with a mosaic distribution. Zootaxa 480: 1-23.
Atrophotergum bonhami, A. montanum, A. pastorale, A. silvaticum, A. sodalis, A. wurrawurraense
Mesibov, R. (2004) A new genus and four new species of millipedes from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae), with notes on male leg setae in some Tasmanian dalodesmids. Zootaxa 558: 1-19.
Bromodesmus catrionae, B. militaris, B. riparius, B. rufus
Mesibov, R. (2005) A new genus of burrowing and cave-dwelling millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. Zootaxa 1034: 21-42.
Atalopharetra bashfordi, A. clarkei, A. eberhardi, A. johnsi
Mesibov, R. (2005) A new genus of millipede (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) with a pseudo-articulated gonopod telopodite. Zootaxa 1064: 39-49.
Ginglymodesmus penelopae, G. sumac, G. tasmanianus PDF
Jeekel, C.A.W. (2006) Millipedes from Australia, 18: Tasmanian Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) (Genera Somethus Chamb., Notodesmus Chamb. and Aethalosoma nov.). Myriapod Memoranda 8: 75-89.
Aethalosoma solum, Notodesmus scotius, Somethus mesibovi, Somethus tasmani
Mesibov, R. (2006) The millipede genus Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania and Victoria, with descriptions of a new genus and 24 new species. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 62(2): 103-146. [Dated 2005, published 2006]
Lissodesmus adrianae, L. alisonae, L. anas, L. bashfordi, L. clivulus, L. cognatus, L. cornutus, L. devexus, L. hamatus, L. horridomontis, L. inopinatus, L. latus, L. modestus, L. montanus, L. orarius, L. peninsulensis, L. perporosus, L. plomleyi BHL
Mesibov, R. (2009) A new millipede genus and a new species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidea) from southern Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 7: 55-74.
Asphalidesmus golovatchi, Noteremus infimus, N. summus DOI
Mesibov, R. (2009) New and little-used morphological characters in Polydesmida (Diplopoda). Soil Organisms 81(3): 531-542.
Aethalosoma solum, Dicranogonus pix (as Dicranogonus sp.), Lissodesmus anas, Notodesmus scotius, Pogonosternum nigrovirgatum (as Pogonosternum sp.), Somethus mesibovi, S. tasmani, Tasmanodesmus hardyi; comments on some other species
Mesibov, R. (2010) The millipede genus Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of 18 new species. ZooKeys 41: 31-80.
Tasmaniosoma alces, T. armatum, T. aureorivum, T. australe, T. barbatulum, T. bruniense, T. cacofonix, T. clarksonorum, T. compitale, T. decussatum, T. fasciculum, T. fragile, T. gerdiorivum, T. hesperium, T. hickmanorum, T. laccobium, T. maria, T. orientale, T. warra
DOI
Mesibov, R. (2010) Two new millipede genera from northwest Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae). Zootaxa 2571: 53-61.
Dysmicodesmus jeekeli, Setoisenoton pallidus
Mesibov, R. (2014) The Australian millipede Dicranogonus pix Jeekel, 1982 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae): a species with and without paranota. ZooKeys 454: 29-39.
Dicranogonus pix DOI
Mesibov, R. (2015) Three new species of Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from northeast Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 488: 31-46.
Tasmaniosoma anubis, T. interfluminum, T. nicolaus, T. barbatulum DOI
Mesibov, R. and Car, C.A. (2015) A new genus and species of native exotic millipede in Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 498: 7-16.
Taxidiotisoma portabile
DOI
Decker, P. (2016) Phylogenetic analysis of the Australian trans-Bass Strait millipede genus Pogonosternum (Carl, 1912) (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) indicates multiple glacial refugia in southeastern Australia. ZooKeys 578: 15-31.
Pogonosternum nigrovirgatum DOI
Decker, P., Mesibov, R., Voigtländer, K. and Xylander, W.E.R. (2017) Revision of the Australian millipede genus Pogonosternum Jeekel, 1965, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 259: 1-34.
Pogonosternum jeekeli, P. nigrovirgatum PDF
Decker, P. (2018) Phylogenetic and morphological discord indicates introgressive hybridisation in two genera of Australian millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 809:1-14.
Pogonosternum jeekeli, P. nigrovirgatum DOI
Mesibov, R. (2018) A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 754:103-111.
Lissodesmus nivalis DOI
Mesibov, R. (2019) A new and cryptic species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 846: 31-41.
Lissodesmus piscator DOI
Mesibov, R. and Rodriguez, J. (2020) A new genus and species of narrow-range millipede (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 966: 1-8.
Kebodesmus zonarius DOI