Millipedes of Australia

Polyxenida: Synxenidae:
Phryssonotus spp.

Go to Phryssonotus synonymy on Synxenidae introduction page.

Phryssonotus novaehollandiae (Silvestri, 1923)
  Synxenus Novaehollandiae Silvestri 1923: 9 (in species key),
    14 (first description),
    fig. 6, p. 15.
  Synxenus Novaehollandiae Silvestri 1948a: 304. (In species list.)
  Phryssonotus novaehollandiae Condé 1954: 75 (in taxonomic discussion, as Synxenus novaehollandiae),
    78 (in list of Phryssonotus species; new combination).
  Phryssonotus novaehollandiae Condé & Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 1984: 48. (Mention of Qld specimen; see Other records, below.)
  Phryssonotus novaehollandiae Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin & Geoffroy 2003: 101. (In Polyxenida catalogue.)
  Phryssonotus novaehollandiae Rasnitsyn & Golovatch 2004: 153 (first mention in review of genus),
    156 (in taxonomic discussion, suggest P. capensis and P. novaehollandiae may be conspecific).
  Phryssonotus novaehollandiae Short & Huynh 2006: 214 (redescription),
    fig. 2, p. 213; fig. 3, p. 214; fig. 4, p. 215; fig. 5, p. 216; fig. 6, p. 218; fig. 7, p. 219; fig. 8, p. 220; fig. 9, p. 221.

Holotype. Stadium V juvenile.
Locality. Mt Lofty, SA.
Collector, date. F. Silvestri, 16 April 1913 (Silvestri 1923: 5, 1948a: 303).
Deposited. '...possibly in the Silvestri type collection formerly housed at Portici, now moved to the Museum of Genoa...' (Short & Huynh 2006: 214). A recent search for the type by the Genoa collection curator was unsuccessful (M. Short, pers. comm. 19 February 2008).
Other records. Recorded from dry habitats in NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic and WA (M. Short, unpublished data based on museum specimens).
Note. A female Phryssonotuswith 16 leg-pairs was collected at Mountain Creek, S of Buderim, Qld, on 4 November 1953 by E.N. Marks from rain forest leaf mould and deposited in GMNH. This specimen was tentatively referred to P. capensis (Silvestri, 1923), a South African species, by Condé & Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin (1984: 48).