Asticopyrgodesmus maiala Mesibov, sp. n., by present designation.

Asticopyrgodesmus lamingtonensis Mesibov, sp. n.

With head + 19 or head + 20 rings; collum not covering head in dorsal view; metatergal tubercles patterned in 4 transverse rows; no enlargement of paramedian or dorsolateral tubercles; ozopores on porosteles; gonopod telopodite distally with rod-like, medial solenomere curving laterally towards much larger, mediolaterally flattened lateral branch.

Greek astikos, ‘urban’ (referring to the occurrence of the type species in the most densely populated part of Queensland), + the type genus of the family, Pyrgodesmus Pocock, 1892; gender masculine.

Male, Maiala National Park, Qld, 27°20'S, 152°46'E ±2 km, 635 m, 13 March 1973, R.J. Kohout, ANIC berlesate 450, rainforest, ANIC 64-000219.

Paratypes. ANIC: 7 males, 1 female, details as for holotype, 64-000218; 9 males, 7 females, same details but R.W. Taylor, ANIC berlesate 451, 64-000220.

ANIC: 38 males, 4 females, 1 stadium 6 female, Joalah National Park [now the Joalah section of Tamborine National Park], Qld, 27°55'S, 153°12'E ±2 km, 380 m, 14 March 1973, R.J. Kohout, ANIC berlesate 454, rainforest, 64-000221; 13 males, 14 females, same details but ANIC berlesate 453, 64-000222; 8 males, same details but ANIC berlesate 452, 64-000223; 9 males, same locality but 27°56'S, 153°12'E ±2 km, 18-21 October 1978, J. Lawrence and T.A. Weir, ANIC berlesate 653, rainforest litter, 64-000224; 10 males, 2 females, same locality but 27°58'S, 153°11'E ±2 km, 23 July 1979, J. Lawrence, ANIC berlesate 656, flood debris and leaf litter, 64-000225; 2 males, O'Reillys, Lamington National Park, Qld, 28°14'S, 153°08'E ±2 km, 920 m, 21 March 1973, R.W. Taylor, ANIC berlesate 459, rainforest, 64-000226; 14 males, 1 female, same locality but 22-27 November 1978, J. Lawrence and T.A. Weir, ANIC berlesate 655, rainforest litter, 64-000227. QM: 5 males, 6 females, O'Reillys Guesthouse, Lamington National Park, Qld, 28°14'08"S, 153°08'12"E ±500 m, 900 m, 14 December 1981, R. Raven, G. Monteith and D. Yeates, QM berlesate 377, rainforest, sieved litter, S92790; 1 male, Mistake Mountains via Goomburra, Sylvesters Track, Qld, 27°58'37"S, 152°22'58"E ±500 m, 1040 m, 21-22 November 1987, P.M. Johns, rainforest logs and litter, S92788; 1 male, Springbrook Repeater, Qld, 28°14'23"S, 153°15'58"E ±500 m, 1000 m, 14 March 1997, G. Monteith and E. Russell, QM berlesate 922, rainforest, sieved litter, S40086; 2 males, 1 female, Mt Superbus, Qld, 28°13'31"S, 152°27'17"E ±500 m, 1370 m, 24 October 1998, G. Monteith, QM berlesate 973, rainforest, stick brushing, S92789.

Diagnosis. Readily distinguished from Asticopyrgodesmus lamingtonensis sp. n. in having head + 19 rings, anterior margin of paranota higher than posterior margin, ozopores on porosteles on rings 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15.

Colour in alcohol light yellowish brown with sparse encrustation of soil particles on vertex, collum, tergites, metatergites and preanal ring. Males and females with head + 19 rings. Male and female approximate measurements: length ca 5 mm; ring 12: overall width 0.7 mm, overall width/prozonite width 1.5, maximum vertical diameter 0.5 mm.

Head (Fig. 2A) with vertex and frons roughened; largest tubercles in rows either side of vertigial sulcus; clypeus smooth and setose. Postantennal groove deep; antennal sockets separated by ca 1× a socket diameter; antennomere relative widths 5>6>(2, 3, 4), relative lengths 5>2>(3, 4, 6).

Collum not covering head in dorsal view (Fig. 3A); anterior margin divided into 10 rounded lobes. Overall ring widths 2–14 about equal, gradually decreasing on rings 15–18.

Midbody metatergite sculpture usually obscured by encrusted soil particles, patterned in 4 transverse rows of variably sized, rounded tubercles; enlarged paramedian or dorsolateral tubercles not evident on any rings (Fig. 4A). Anterior metatergal margins indistinctly divided into ca 16 lobes, posterior margin into 14 lobes, the lateralmost lobe on each side largest and most clearly demarcated.

Paranota (Fig. 5A) very short, arising low on body, slightly declined, pitched so anterior margin is higher than posterior margin. Ring 2 paranotum expanded anterodistally, lateral margin weakly divided into 3 rounded lobes. From ring 3 onwards, anterior margin very slightly convex, undivided; 2 weakly demarcated lateral marginal lobes, the anterior lobe larger; posterior margin short, slightly convex.

Metatergal surface details obscured by soil particles and secretions; no setae evident on collum, tergites or metatergites. Prozonites with lozenge-shaped raised elements anterior to suture and subspherical knobs posterior to suture; suture marked by a ridge of longitudinally elongated elements. Limbus a single row of very thin lobes with more or less straight distal margins, and with 1–2 very thin spikes above each lobe (Fig. 2C).

Ozopores (Fig. 5A) on prominent porosteles arising from posterobasal corner of paranota on rings 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15.

Sternites not setose, about as wide as long; transverse impression wider than longitudinal. Legs short, hidden by paranota in dorsal view; relative podomere lengths tarsus>femur>prefemur>(postfemur, tibia). Spiracles not evident.

Preanal ring (Fig. 6A) with 4+4 lobes; epiproct very short, bifurcate; spinnerets in square array below apex; hypoproct rounded-triangular.

Gonopore a small, inconspicuous opening on medial surface of leg 2 coxa (Fig. 2A). Aperture transversely rectangular, ca 1/2 width of ring 7 prozonite, slightly constricted anteriorly at midline (Fig. 7A). Gonocoxa covering most of telopodite with roughened, sparsely setose, slightly convex outer surface when gonopods retracted. Gonocoxa deeply excavate medially, forming gonocoel. Telopodite (Fig. 7A) with wide base in gonocoel; tapering abruptly from base, swollen and roughened posteroventrally, sparsely setose, the posteromedial corner of the base extended and more densely setose. Distal portion of telopodite (Figs 7A, B) divided into medial and lateral branches; medial branch cup-like, the posteromedial rim of the cup produced as short, distolaterally curving solenomere; lateral branch of telopodite extending posterolaterally as tongue-shaped process, slightly concave ventrolaterally. Prostatic groove running on medial surface of medial branch of telopodite, opening at tip of solenomere.

Female with epigyne ca 1/2 ring width, slightly raised, rounded-rectangular with straight distal margin; cyphopods not examined.

Rainforest in southeastern Queensland, from D’Aguilar National Park northwest of Brisbane almost to the New South Wales border, a north-south distance of ca 110 km (Fig. 11). Co-occurs with Asticopyrgodesmus lamingtonensis sp. n. in Lamington National Park.

For the Maiala section of D’Aguilar National Park, the type locality; noun in apposition.

Two of the males in ANIC 64-000220 are noticeably smaller than the other seven in the sample, but seem to have the same gonopod structure in situ at high optical magnification. While the smaller ‘Asticopyrgodesmus maiala’ specimens may represent a third species of Asticopyrgodesmus, I have not been able to detect differences in somatic features between them and the seven larger males in ANIC 64-000220.

Male, O’Reillys, Lamington National Park, Qld, 28°14'S, 153°08'E ±2 km, 22–27 November 1978, J. Lawrence and T. Weir, ANIC berlesate 655, rainforest litter, ANIC 64-000216.

ANIC: 12 males, details as for holotype, 64-000217.

None.

As for Asticopyrgodesmus maiala sp. n., differing in the following details (see also Figs 2F, 4B):

Males with head + 20 rings (females not yet recognised). Paranota (Fig. 5B) extending further laterally than in Asticopyrgodesmus maiala sp. n., anterior edge lower than posterior edge, declined at ca 60°. Ozopores on porosteles on rings 5, 7, 9, 12, 15 only. Gonopod telopodite (Figs 7C, 7D, 8A) divided distally into three branches: (a) basal branch posteriorly directed, mediolaterally flattened, apically with broad, gently convex margin; (b) solenomere rod-like, medial, tapering to point, posteriorly directed at base and abruptly bent posterolaterally; (c) laterodistal branch directed posterolaterally, subdivided into two mediolaterally flattened processes directed posteriorly with wide, U-shaped gap between, the lateral process larger, both processes tapering to rounded apex.

So far known only from rainforest at the type locality in southeastern Queensland (Fig. 11). Co-occurs with Asticopyrgodesmus maiala sp. n.

For Lamington National Park, the type locality; adjective.

This species very closely resembles Asticopyrgodesmus maiala sp. n., but differs most obviously in ring number.

Nephopyrgodesmus eungella Mesibov, sp. n., by present designation.

Males and females with head + 20 rings; collum completely covering head in dorsal view; metatergal tubercles patterned in 3 transverse rows; paramedian and dorsolateral tubercles slightly enlarged; ozopores not on porosteles; gonopod telopodite divided distally into medial, flagellum-like solenomere and much larger lateral branch, the latter divided into appressed medial and lateral processes, with the solenomere normally lying parallel to and just above the line of contact between the two processes.

Greek nephos, ‘cloud’ (referring to the place name Eungella, reported to mean ‘land of cloud’), + the type genus of the family, Pyrgodesmus; gender masculine.

Male, Eungella National Park, Qld, 21°09'S, 148°30'E ±2 km, 760 m, 10 November 1976, R.W. Taylor and T.A. Weir, ANIC berlesate 562, rainforest, ANIC 64-000232.

ANIC: 9 males, 13 females, details as for holotype, 64-000231; 6 males, 6 females, same details but ANIC berlesate 563, 64-000229; 10 males, 9 females, same details but ANIC berlesate 564, 64-000228; 1 male, 2 females, Broken River, Eungella National Park, Qld, 21°10'S, 148°31'E ±2 km, 700 m, 10-12 November 1976, R.W. Taylor and T.A. Weir, ANIC berlesate 559, 64-000234; 3 males, 1 female, same details but ANIC berlesate 560, 64-000237; 4 males, 3 females, same details but ANIC berlesate 561, 64-000235; 5 males, 2 females, same details but ANIC berlesate 568, 64-000236; 4 males, 2 females, same details but ANIC berlesate 570, 64-000233.

ANIC: 3 males, 3 females, 3 stadium 7 females, 3 km S of Eungella, Qld, 21°09'S, 148°29'E ±2 km, 780 m, 26 March 1975, R.W. Taylor, ANIC berlesate 489, 64-000230; 4 males, 5 females, 1 stadium 6 female, Finch Hatton Gorge, Qld, 21°05'S, 148°38'E ±2 km, 200 m, 11 November 1976, R.W. Taylor and T.A. Weir, ANIC berlesate 565, rainforest, 64-000238. QM: 1 female, Eungella schoolhouse, Qld, 21°07'51"S, 148°29'32"E ±2 km, 13 February 1986, J. Gallon and R. Raven, QM berlesate 709, rainforest, S92792; 4 females, Finch Hatton Gorge, Qld, 21°04'13"S, 148°38'11"E ±500 m, 300 m, 18 November 1992, G. Monteith, G. Thompson, D. Cook and H. Janetzki, S92791.

Colour in alcohol pale yellow, with brown encrusted soil particles on vertex, frons, collum, tergites, metatergites, preanal ring, gonocoxae and midline of sternites (Fig. 9A). Males and females with head + 20 rings. Male and female approximate measurements: length 7 mm; ring 12: overall width 1.5 mm, overall width/prozonite width 2.2, maximum vertical diameter 0.8 mm.

Head (Fig. 9B) with vertex and frons roughened, clypeus smooth and setose. Postantennal groove deep; antennal sockets separated by ca 1× a socket diameter; antennomere relative widths 5>6>(2, 3, 4), relative lengths 5>(2, 6)>(3, 4).

Collum completely covering head in dorsal view (Fig. 3B); anterior margin of collum parallel to ground, weakly divided into 10 rounded lobes; main part of collum nearly perpendicular to ground in lateral view. Overall ring widths 2–17 about equal; rings 18 and 19 narrower.

Midbody metatergite sculpture usually obscured by encrusted soil particles, patterned in 3 transverse rows; 3 small, short, rounded-conical paramedian tubercles, the posterior pair sometimes confluent; 2-3 small, short, rounded-conical dorsolateral tubercles, the second tubercle largest. Paramedian tubercles only slightly enlarged on rings 17–19 (Fig. 4C). Anterior metatergal margin typically weakly divided into 14 rounded lobes; posterior metatergal margin into 12 subquadrate lobes.

Paranota (Fig. 5C) arising low on body, very slightly directed posteriorly, declined at ca 45°, pitched slightly so anterior margin is lower than posterior margin. Ring 2 paranotum expanded anterodistally, lateral margin very weakly divided into 3 rounded lobes. From ring 3 onwards, anterior margin straight, undivided; 3 weakly demarcated lateral marginal lobes on poriferous rings, 2 on non-poriferous rings; posterior margin with deep notch dividing margin into 2 lobes with straight distal margins, the basal lobe smaller. Rings 18 and 19 paranota directed posterolaterally.

Metatergal surface details obscured by soil particles and secretions; no setae evident on collum, tergites or metatergites. Prozonites with lozenge-shaped raised elements anterior to suture and subspherical knobs posterior to suture; suture marked by a ridge of longitudinally elongated elements. Limbus a single row of very thin lobes with more or less straight distal margins, and with 1-2 very thin spikes above each lobe (Fig. 2D).

Ozopores (Fig. 5C) not on porosteles, difficult to detect, opening near medial, basal corner of largest (most lateral) posterior marginal lobe of paranota on rings 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15–17 (and 18 and 19?).

Sternites slightly roughened, not setose, longer than wide; transverse impression deeper than longitudinal. Legs short, hidden by paranota in dorsal view; relative podomere lengths (femur, tarsus)>prefemur>(postfemur, tibia). Spiracles small; anterior spiracle above anterior leg, posterior spiracle above and anterior to posterior leg.

Preanal ring with 3+3 lobes; epiproct short, bluntly rounded, spinnerets in square array below apex; hypoproct rounded-triangular.

Gonopore a small, inconspicuous opening on medial surface of leg 2 coxa. Aperture tranversely ovoid, between 1/3 and 1/2 width of ring 7 prozonite. Gonocoxa shallowly concave medially, forming gonocoel, with a few setae on outer ventromedial and inner dorsomedial surfaces, and with small, setose knob on medial surface near base. Telopodite (Figs 7E, 8B) arising on anteromedial surface of gonocoel, cylindrical near base, the distal two-thirds bent posterolaterally and divided into a large, complex, main branch and a flagellum-like, anteromedial solenomere. Main branch subdivided into lateral and medial portions; lateral portion slightly flattened mediolaterally, posterior margin expanded basally, anterior margin folded over medially; medial portion of main branch ca 2/3 length of lateral portion and narrower, apex acuminate, closely pressed to lateral portion, and with small, thin tab on medial surface directed posteromedially. Solenomere a little longer than medial portion of main branch, normally lying in groove between folded-over anterior margin of lateral portion of main branch and anterior margin of medial portion (Fig. 7E). Prostatic groove running on anteromedial surface of telopodite base before entering flagellum, apparently opening on flagellum tip. When retracted (Fig. 9C), gonocoxae forming two low, rounded mounds, the distomedial edges almost meeting anteriorly but separated posteriorly, exposing anterior surface of telopodite.

Female with epigyne ca 1/2 ring width, slightly raised, rounded-rectangular with straight distal margin; cyphopods not examined.

Known from rainforest in the Eungella area in central (near-coastal) Queensland and from Finch Hatton Gorge, ca 15 km distant (Fig. 11).

For Eungella National Park, the type locality; noun in apposition. The name Eungella is “Derived from [the] town and pastoral run name first used by Ernest Favenc (1845-1908), explorer, journalist and historian, in July 1876, reportedly an Aboriginal word, language and dialect not recorded, indicating land of cloud” (http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/property/placenames/details.php?id=46868; accessed 12 July 2012).

Nephopyrgodesmus eungella is one of the few Australian pyrgodesmids which can be found partly coiled in preservation (Fig. 9A).

Notopyrgodesmus kulla Mesibov, sp. n., by present designation.

Notopyrgodesmus lanosus Mesibov, sp. n., Notopyrgodesmus weiri Mesibov, sp. n.

Males and females with head + 20 rings; collum completely covering head in dorsal view; metatergal tubercles patterned in 2 transverse rows; paramedian and dorsolateral tubercles prominent, much enlarged on last rings; ozopores on porosteles; tergites and metatergites dorsally with minute, hair-like cuticular outgrowths with expanded tips; gonopod telopodite distally like curled leaf, concave medially, the rod-like solenomere arising from curled anteromedial margin of telopodite.

Greek notos (‘south’) + the type genus of the family, Pyrgodesmus; gender masculine.

Male, 11 km W by N of Bald Hill, McIlwraith Range, Qld, 13°44'S, 143°20'E ±2 km, 520 m, 27 June - 12 July 1989, T.A. Weir, ANIC berlesate 1113, search party campsite, closed forest, flood debris, ANIC 64-000240.

ANIC: 3 males, 3 females, details as for holotype, 64-000239; 1 male, 2 females, same details but ANIC berlesate 1111, leaf and log litter, 64-000242; 1 female, 1 stadium 7 male, same details but ANIC berlesate 1114, leaf litter and flood debris, 64-000241; 2 males, 8 km W by N of Bald Hill, McIlwraith Range, Qld, 13°45'S, 143°22'E ±2 km, 500 m, 27 June - 12 July 1989, T.A. Weir, ANIC berlesate 1117, upper Leo Creek site, closed forest, leaf litter, 64-000243.

ANIC: 1 male, Noah Creek, Qld, 16°07'S, 145°25'E ±2 km, 50 m, 21 June 1971, R.W. Taylor and J. Feehan, ANIC berlesate 321, rainforest, 64-000245; 1 female, 1 stadium 7 female, Cooper Creek near Daintree, Qld, 16°11'S, 145°26'E ±2 km, 50 m, 22 June 1971, R.W. Taylor and J. Feehan, ANIC berlesate 334, rainforest, 64-000246; 2 males, 1 female, Moses Creek, 4 km N by E of Mt Finnigan, Qld, 15°47'S, 145°17'E ±2 km, 14-16 October 1980, T. Weir, ANIC berlesate 696, 64-000244. QM: 2 males, 1 female, 1 stadium 7 male, 2.5 km SW of Mt Hartley via Cooktown, Qld, 15°47'45"S, 145°18'17"E ±500 m, 610 m, 24 April 1982, G. Monteith, D. Yeates and D. Cook, QM berlesate 400, rainforest, sieved litter, S92793; 2 females, Table Mountain, 10 km S of Cape Tribulation, Qld, 16°09'30"S, 145°26'07"E ±500 m, 320 m, 24 April 1983, G. Monteith and D. Cook, QM berlesate 542, rainforest, sieved litter, S92801; 1 male, 1 female, 3 stadium 7 males, Mt Finnigan summit, Qld, 15°49'06"S, 145°16'45"E ±500 m, 1100 m, 30 November 1985, G. Monteith and D. Cook, QM berlesate 700, rainforest, sieved litter, S92794; 1 male, 2 females, 1 stadium 6 female, same details but 21 November 1998, G. Monteith, QM berlesate 981, S92795; 1 stadium 7 female, Mt Misery summit via Shiptons Flat, Qld, 15°52'46"S, 145°13'32"E ±500 m, 850 m, 6 December 1990, G. Monteith, G. Thompson, R. Sheridan, D. Cook and L. Roberts, S92798; 1 female, Mt Pieter Botte, Qld, 16°04'37"S, 145°24'22"E ±500 m, 950 m, 21 November 1993, G. Monteith, H. Janetzki, L. Roberts and D. Cook, S92800; 1 male, 1 female, Mt Boolbun South, Qld, 15°57'10"S, 145°08'23"E ±500 m, 850-1000 m, 4-6 November 1995, G. Monteith, D. Cook and L. Roberts, S92796; 1 male, 1 stadium 7 male, same details but 850 m, 6 November 1995, G. Monteith, QM berlesate 896, rainforest, sieved litter, S92799; 1 female, 1 stadium 7 female, same details but QM berlesate 897, S92797.

Readily distinguished from Notopyrgodesmus lanosus sp. n. in having ozopores on porosteles on rings 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, and in lacking ‘spines’ (tight clusters of hair-like cuticular outgrowths) on the tips of the paramedian tubercles. Readily distinguished from Notopyrgodesmus weiri sp. n. in larger size (adults 9-10 mm in length vs 6 mm) and in the lack of a deep notch separating the lateral marginal lobes on the paranota.

Colour in alcohol pale yellow, with brown encrusted soil particles on vertex, frons, collum, tergites, metatergites, preanal ring, gonocoxae and midline of sternites (Fig. 10A). Males and females with head + 20 rings. Male/female approximate measurements: length 9/10 mm; ring 12: overall width 1.8/1.8 mm, overall width/prozonite width 2.0/1.8, maximum vertical diameter 1.0/1.2 mm.

Head with vertex and frons roughened, clypeus smooth and setose. Postantennal groove deep; antennal sockets separated by ca 1× a socket diameter; antennomere relative widths 5>(3, 4, 6)>2, relative lengths 5>(3, 4, 5)>6.

Collum completely covering head in dorsal view (Fig. 3C); anterior margin of collum parallel to ground, weakly divided into 10 rounded lobes; main part of collum nearly perpendicular to ground in lateral view. Overall ring widths 2-17 about equal; rings 18 and 19 narrower.

Midbody metatergite sculpture sometimes obscured by encrusted soil particles, but clearly patterned in 2 transverse rows (Fig. 10A, B): 2 low paramedian tubercles; dorsum between paramedian tubercles with 2 anterior raised areas and triangular posterior raised area, apex of the latter pointed anteriorly; 2 (sometimes 3) low dorsolateral tubercles, the posterior tubercle largest, sometimes extending slightly beyond posterior margin of metatergite and set slightly more dorsal than anterior dorsolateral tubercle. A prominent, posterolaterally directed tubercle on posterior metatergal margin, just above paranotal base. Metatergite surface broken into complex but more or less regular mosaics of low raised areas between paramedian tubercles and dorsolateral tubercles, and between dorsolateral tubercles and posterior paranotal lobe. Posterior paramedian tubercles enlarged as apically rounded cones and directed posterodorsally on rings 17-19; ring 18 tubercles largest (Fig. 4D).

Paranota (Fig. 5D) arising low on body, very slightly directed posteriorly, declined at ca 30°, pitched slightly so anterior margin is lower than posterior margin. Ring 2 paranotum expanded anterodistally, lateral margin very weakly divided into 3 rounded lobes. From ring 3 onwards, anterior margin straight, undivided; 2 lateral marginal lobes (ring 3 sometimes undivided); posterior margin with deep notch basally. Rings 18 and 19 paranota directed posterolaterally.

Metatergal surface details obscured by soil particles and secretions, but some margins with very small, hair-like cuticular outgrowths with expanded tips; no setae evident on collum, tergites or metatergites. Prozonites with lozenge-shaped raised elements anterior to suture and subspherical knobs posterior to suture; suture marked by a ridge of longitudinally elongated elements. Limbus a single row of very thin lobes with more or less straight distal margins, and with 1–2 very thin spikes above each lobe (Fig. 2E).

Ozopores (Fig. 5D, 7F) on porosteles near posterolateral corner of paranota on rings 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16; not evident on 17–19; porosteles directed somewhat posterolaterally, cylindrical, apically slightly expanded.

Sternites slightly roughened, not setose, longer than wide; transverse impression slightly deeper than longitudinal. Legs short, hidden by paranota in dorsal view; relative podomere lengths (femur, tarsus)>prefemur>(postfemur, tibia). Spiracles not evident.

Preanal ring with 3+3 lobes; epiproct short, bluntly rounded, spinnerets in square array below apex; hypoproct rounded-triangular.

Gonopore a small, inconspicuous opening on medial surface of leg 2 coxa. Aperture transversely ovoid, ca 1/3 width of ring 7 prozonite. Gonocoxa roughly quadrangular in medial view; ventrolateral surface roughened and convex; medial surface forming gonocoel, this surface basally setose. Telopodite (Figs 8C, D) attached at anterodorsal corner of gonocoel, directed towards posteroventral corner. Telopodite without setae, cylindrical at base, distal two-thirds shaped like curled leaf, concave medially; apex acuminate; posterobasal margin curled medially; anterobasal margin similarly curved, extended posteriorly as subcylindrical solenomere bent slightly basally and terminating below apex of telopodite, solenomere apex narrowing but blunt. Prostatic groove following the curled posterobasal margin of telopodite to solenomere base, opening at solenomere tip. When retracted, gonocoxae forming two low, rounded mounds, their flat medial surfaces appressed with narrow longitudinal slit between, telopodites not visible.

Female with epigyne ca 1/3 ring width, slightly raised, rounded-rectangular with straight distal margin; cyphopods not examined.

Wet forest on Cape York Peninsula south to the Daintree area in tropical northern Queensland, a north-south distance of ca 350 km (Fig. 11). Co-occurs with Notopyrgodesmus weiri sp. n. in the McIlwraith Range.

Acronym, noun in apposition, for the four Aboriginal clans who are traditional owners of the McIlwraith Range: Kaanju, Umpila, Lama Lama and Ayapathu (http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/parks/kulla-mcilwraith-range/culture.html; accessed 12 July 2012). KULLA is also the name of the national park located in the Range.

The specimens from the southern part of the Notopyrgodesmus kulla range (Fig. 10A) are mostly smaller (males ca 8 mm long, midbody overall width ca 1.5 mm) than those from the type locality and are less encrusted with soil particles.

Male, Cape Tribulation area, Qld, 16°03' to 16°05'S, 145°28'E ±5 km, 21-28 March 1984, A. Calder and T. Weir, ANIC berlesate 943, rainforest on steep slopes, ANIC 64-000248 (in 2 pieces).

ANIC: 1 male, 1 female, 1 stadium 7 male, 1 stadium 7 female, details as for holotype, 64-000247.

None.

As for Notopyrgodesmus kulla sp. n., differing in the following details (see also Figs 3D, 5E, 10C):

Male ca 7 mm long; ring 12: overall width 1.3 mm, overall width/prozonite width 1.9, maximum vertical diameter 0.8 mm; female very slightly larger. Anterior paramedian tubercles conical, apically rounded; posterior paramedian tubercles equally tall, apically with 2 short, rounded cones (Fig. 4E). In male, female and stadium 7 juveniles, the collum, tergites, metatergites, paranota, preanal ring and epiproct irregularly and densely covered with long, hair-like structures with expanded tips (Figs 6C, D); these structures tightly clustered at each of the 3 paramedian tubercle tips, the cluster appearing as a single ‘spine’ at low magnification. Porosteles on rings 5, 7, 9, 12, 15 in male, female, stadium 7 juveniles. Gonopods not significantly different in form from those of Notopyrgodesmus kulla sp. n., although proportionately smaller.

So far known only from rainforest at the type locality in tropical northern Queensland (Fig. 11).

Latin lanosus (‘woolly’), referring to the dense covering of fine, hair-like structures in this species; adjective.

Male, 11 km W by N of Bald Hill, McIlwraith Range, Qld, 13°44'S, 143°20'E ±2 km, 520 m, 27 June - 12 July 1989, T.A. Weir, ANIC berlesate 1112, search party campsite, closed forest, flood debris, ANIC 64-000250.

ANIC: 1 male, details as for holotype 64-000251; 1 male, same data but ANIC berlesate 1114, leaf litter and flood debris, 64-000249.

None.

As for Notopyrgodesmus kulla sp. n., differing in the following details (see also Figs 2B, 3E, 3F, 6B):

Male ca 6 mm long; ring 12: overall width 1.3 mm, overall width/prozonite width 2.4, maximum vertical diameter 0.6 mm. Paranota (Fig. 5F, 10D) divided laterally into anterior and posterior lobes by prominent notch; porostele-bearing posterior lobes distinctly shorter than anterior lobes on same ring. Paramedian tubercles conical, apically rounded, beginning ring 14 increasingly extended, the posterior tubercle taller and directed posterodorsally (Fig. 4F). No prominent tubercle on posterior metatergal margin above base of paranotum. Gonopods not significantly different in form from those of Notopyrgodesmus kulla sp. n., although proportionately smaller.

So far known only from wet forest at the type locality on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland (Fig. 11). Co-occurs with Notopyrgodesmus kulla sp. n.

To honour Tom Weir, CSIRO entomologist and diligent collector; adjective.

Since Notopyrgodesmus kulla sp. n. and Notopyrgodesmus weiri co-occur, it is clear that mate recognition in these species depends in syntopy on factors, including body size, other than gonopod form.