taxonID	type	description	language	source
F89A402781411ECEB224FB0B1376B041.taxon	materials_examined	Other material. Tasmania, QVM: 1 male, Giblin Fells, Ben Lomond, - 41.5471, 147.6666, + / - 100 m, 1540 m a. s. l., 15 April 2017, K. Bonham, 2017: 23: 0185, gonopod telopodite with femoral processes broken off; 1 stadium VI male, Surprise Vale, Ben Lomond, - 41.5392, 147.6719, + / - 50 m, 1450 m a. s. l., 20 November 2017, R. Mesibov, 2017: 23: 0244.	en	Mesibov, Robert (2018): A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 754: 103-111, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.25704, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.25704
F89A402781411ECEB224FB0B1376B041.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Distinguished from all other Lissodesmus species by a unique combination of character states of gonopod telopodite processes: solenomere without pre-apical process, tibiotarsus Y-shaped, femoral process L-shaped with forked tips, prefemoral process with long comb of teeth below irregularly dentate apical margin, roughened " shoulder process " near base of prefemoral process.	en	Mesibov, Robert (2018): A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 754: 103-111, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.25704, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.25704
F89A402781411ECEB224FB0B1376B041.taxon	description	Description. Male / female approximate measurements: length 25 / 25 mm, midbody vertical diameter 2.1 / 2.5 mm, midbody width across paranota 3.2 / 3.5 mm. Live specimens yellowish-brown to chestnut brown with pinkish red antennae (darker distally) and pinkish red legs (darker basally); rings darkest at posterior metatergal margin and along paranotal margins. Male with vertex sparsely setose and frons moderately so. Antennal sockets separated by 2 X socket diameter. Antenna short, just reaching ring 3 when manipulated backwards; relative length of antennomeres 2> (3,6)> (4,5), antennomere 6 widest. Col lum slightly narrower than head, slightly wider than tergite 2; anteriorly very slightly convex, laterally slightly convex; posterior edge medially a little emarginate; corners rounded. Tergite width increasing gradually from rings 2 - 6, then subequal, then decreasing 17 - 19. Waist (Fig. 2 A, B) well-defined, with faint longitudinal striations. Prozonites and metazonites with faint cellular sculpturing; limbus composed of close-set flat tabs. Paranota (Fig. 2 A, B) smooth, swollen, wide (ratio of overall width to prozonite width ca 1.4 on midbody ring); anterior shoulder tightly curved, projected anteriorly; lateral margin slightly convex, sometimes with small notches detectable, the first and last usually with 1 short seta on anterior corner of notch; posterior corner rounded, not extending past posterior metatergite margin on most rings, produced as rounded tooth on rings 17 - 19; posterior corner seta prominent, erect. Ozopore (Fig. 2 B) small, opening dorsolaterally close to paranotal margin and anterior to posterior paranotal corner; pore formula 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15 - 19. Spiracles with rims slightly raised above pleural surface; anterior spiracle on diplosegments larger, posterior spiracle about midway between leg bases. Sternites about as long as wide, with fine, short, sparse setae; transverse impression much deeper than longitudinal. Legs short; from legpair 3 prefemur greatly swollen dorsally, femur somewhat swollen dorsally, gradually less so posteriorly; most legs with postfemur and tibia expanded ventrodistally; relative podomere lengths tarsus> femur> prefemur> (postfemur, tibia) on midbody legs; tarsus straight. From legpair 3, sphaerotrichomes on prefemur, femur, postfemur, tibia and tarsus, densest on tibia and tarsus; each sphaerotrichome hemispherical with blunt-tipped, tapered setal shaft inclined distoventrally; dense brush setae on prefemur and femur, tapering with blunt tips; no sphaerotrichomes or brush setae on last 2 legpairs. Pre-anal ring with sparse, long setae; hypoproct paraboloid; epiproct extending a little past anal valves, sides slightly emarginate, tip truncate between 2 short, rounded, apical bumps; spinnerets in square array in shallow, low-walled cavity just ventral to epiproct tip. Gonopore small, opening on rounded, mediodistal enlargement of leg 2 coxa. Gonopod telopodites extending to leg 5 bases when retracted; bases of legs 6 and 7 well-separated, coxae of legs 6 and 7 slightly swollen ventrally; sternite between legs 6 and 7 slightly excavate, with brushes of long, stiff setae on sternite just medial to coxae. Aperture ovoid but with anterior margin straight, wider than long, about 1 / 2 the width of ring 7 prozonite, rim slightly raised laterally. Gonopods: gonocoxae truncate-conical, tapering distally, lightly joined medially, moderately setose on posterobasal surface. Telopodite (Figs 2 C, 3) long, slender, gently curving anteriorly from base, with a band of long setae (Fig. 3 C) on posterolateral surface from telopodite base almost to level of solenomere base. Telopodite base tapering from thickened basal rim. Cannula prominent, entering telopodite base in excavation lined with fine setae; prostatic groove running on anterior surface of telopodite before joining base of solenomere, opening at solenomere tip. Solenomere thin, rod-like, tapering to point, arising at ca 1 / 2 telopodite height on anteromedial surface, directed a little posterodistally before curving anterodistally. Tibiotarsus arising on posterior surface a little distal to level of solenomere base, thicker than solenomere, directed distomedially, apex bifurcated, the tips blunt. Femoral process arising on anterolateral surface distal to tibiotarsus origin, L-shaped; the longer portion of the " L " directed posterodistally with a forked tip; the shorter portion of the " L " directed posterobasally, also with forked tip but with distal portion of fork larger than basal portion. In distal 1 / 3 of telopodite, prefemoral process separated on posteromedial side from prominent, tab-like " shoulder " process with irregularly and bluntly toothed margin. Prefemoral process flattened anterolaterally, curving medially near obliquely truncate apex, with apical margin irregularly and bluntly toothed and with ca 15 discrete teeth forming comb on posterior margin. Female closely resembling male but a little wider; legs not swollen. Genital aperture with posterior margin rounded-triangular medially; cyphopods not examined.	en	Mesibov, Robert (2018): A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 754: 103-111, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.25704, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.25704
F89A402781411ECEB224FB0B1376B041.taxon	distribution	Distribution. So far known only from alpine moorland and shrubland at three localities on the Ben Lomond plateau in northeast Tasmania (Fig. 1 A, B). Found in peaty material under prostrate and rock-hugging alpine shrubs (Fig. 1 C).	en	Mesibov, Robert (2018): A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 754: 103-111, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.25704, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.25704
