Millipedes of Australia

Polyzoniida: Siphonotidae: Siphonotinae: Rhinotini:
Rhinotus spp.

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Rhinotus michaelseni (Attems, 1911)
  Orsilochus Michaelseni Attems 1911: 149 (in species list),
    199 (first description),
    fig. 93, p. 199; figs. 94-98, p. 200.
  Rhinotus michaelseni Carl 1912: From secondary source, not yet checked.
  Rhinotus michaelseni Attems 1914: 359. (In species catalogue.)
  Rhinotus michaelseni Chamberlin 1920a: 98. (In species catalogue.)
  Rhinotus michaelseni Verhoeff 1924: 134. (In species list.)

Syntypes. 1 male from Bridgetown, WA, Hamburg Expedition station 144, 30-31 July 1905 (Michaelsen & Hartmeyer 1907: 115);
  1 juvenile from Yallingup, WA, Hamburg Expedition station 150, 5 October 1905 (Michaelsen & Hartmeyer 1907: 116)
Deposited. In ZMH: juvenile male 'paratype' from Yallingup (Weidner 1960: 99).
  Also NHMW (sighted by Dennis Black, pers. comm.; presumably this is the adult male syntype from Bridgetown). 

Rhinotus mjoebergi Verhoeff, 1924
  Rhinotus mjöbergi Verhoeff 1924: 128 (first description),
    figs. 92-96, pl. 5.
  Rhinotus mjoebergi Jeekel 1981: 28. (In list of species recorded from eastern Australia.)

Holotype. Male.
Locality. Blackall Range, Qld.
Collector, date. Collected during Dr E. Mjöberg's Australia expeditions, 1910-1913.
Deposited. No information yet. NHRM?