A new species of Parascutigera (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha) from Queensland, Australia

摘要

Six nominal species of Parascutigera Verhoeff, 1904, from the Wet Tropics of north Queensland, Australia, have recently been revised as a single species, P guttata Verhoeff, 1925. A new species from central- and south-eastern Queensland, Parascutigerapeluda n. sp., is readily distinguished from P guttata by its long, dense tergal spicula, a derived character shared with congeners from New Caledonia.