Millipedes of Australia

Spirobolida: Pachybolidae:
Trigoniulus spp.

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Trigoniulus burnetticus Attems, 1898
  Trigoniulus burnetticus Attems 1898a: 513. (First description.)
  Trigoniulus burnetticus Brolemann 1913: 116. (In taxonomic discussion.)
  Trigoniulus burnetticus Attems 1914: 346. (In species catalogue.)
  Trigoniulus burnetticus Chamberlin 1920a: 219. (In species catalogue.)
  'Trigoniulus' burnetticus Jeekel 1981: 39. (In list of species recorded from eastern Australia.)
  'Trigoniulus' burnetticus Jeekel 2001b: 81. (In species catalogue, among 'Pachybolidae of uncertain generic position'.)

Types. Female syntypes.
Locality. Burnett district, Qld.
Collector, date. Richard Semon, during his expedition to Australia in 1891-1893 (Semon 1899).
Deposited. No information yet.

Trigoniulus comma Attems, 1898
  Trigoniulus comma Attems 1898a: 513. (First description.)
  Trigoniulus comma Brolemann 1913: 116. (In taxonomic discussion.)
  Trigoniulus comma Attems 1914: 346. (In species catalogue.)
  Trigoniulus comma Chamberlin 1920a: 219. (In species catalogue.)
  'Trigoniulus' comma Jeekel 1981: 39. (In list of species recorded from eastern Australia.)
  'Trigoniulus' comma Jeekel 2001b: 82. (In species catalogue, among 'Pachybolidae of uncertain generic position'.)

Holotype. Female.
Locality. Burnett district, Qld.
Collector, date. Richard Semon, during his expedition to Australia in 1891-1893 (Semon 1899).
Deposited. No information yet.

Trigoniulus formosus Silvestri, 1895
  Trigoniulus formosus Silvestri 1895a: 657 (first description),
    659 (in species key).
  Trigoniulus formosus Attems 1914: 347. (In species catalogue.)
  'Trigoniulus' formosus Jeekel 1981: 37. (In list of species recorded from eastern Australia.)
  'Trigoniulus' formosus Jeekel 2001b: 82. (In species catalogue, among 'Pachybolidae of uncertain generic position'.)

Holotype. Male.
Locality. Somerset, Qld.
Collector, date. L.M. D'Albertis, who travelled to Papua New Guinea from Somerset in 1875, 1876 and 1877. The Netherlands National Herbarium gives an excellent overview of the Albertis expeditions at www.nationaalherbarium.nl/fmcollectors/A/AlbertisLMd.htm.
Deposited. No information yet.

Trigoniulus hebes Verhoeff, 1928
  Trigoniulus hebes Verhoeff 1928: 111 (in species key),
    112 (first description).
  'Trigoniulus' hebes Jeekel 1981: 39. (In list of species recorded from eastern Australia.)
  'Trigoniulus' hebes Jeekel 2001b: 82. (In species catalogue, among 'Pachybolidae of uncertain generic position'.)

Syntypes. 1 female and 1 juvenile male.
Locality. Upper Richmond River, NSW.
Collector, date. R. Helms, April 1890 (AM label data; G. Milledge, AM, pers. comm.).
Deposited. AM, KS76537 (female), KS76538 (male) (G. Milledge, AM, pers. comm.).

Trigoniulus hemityphlus Verhoeff, 1924
  Trigoniulus hemityphlus Verhoeff 1924: 112. (In species key, and first description.)
  Trigoniulus hemityphlus Verhoeff 1928: 110. (In species key.)
  'Trigoniulus' hemityphlus Jeekel 1981: 31 (in discussion of species recorded from eastern Australia; 'It seems probable that 'Trigoniulus' hemityphlus Verhoeff, 1924, from Adelaide, is a spirobolellid, rather than a trigoniulid.'),
    37 ('However, this species, which was based on a single immature male, may in fact belong to the family Spirobollelidae, since several points in its diagnosis seem to indicate that it is quite different from the other Australian trigoniulids.')
  'Trigoniulus' hemityphlus Jeekel 2001b: 86. (In species catalogue, among 'Spirobolida of uncertain family and generic position'.)

Holotype. Juvenile male.
Locality. Adelaide, SA.
Collector, date. Collected in October (Verhoeff 1924: 113) during Dr E. Mjöberg's Australia expeditions, 1910-1913.
Deposited. No information yet. NHRM?

Trigoniulus insculptus blackalensis Verhoeff, 1924
  Trigoniulus insculptus blackalensis Verhoeff 1924: 117. (First description.)
  Trigoniulus insculptus blackalensis Jeekel 1981: 39. (In list of species recorded from eastern Australia.)
  Trigoniulus insculptus ssp. blackalensis Jeekel 2001b: 77. (In species catalogue.)

Holotype. Juvenile male.
Locality. Blackall Range, Qld.
Collector, date. Collected in October (Verhoeff 1924: 117) during Dr E. Mjöberg's Australia expeditions, 1910-1913.
Deposited. No information yet. NHRM?

Trigoniulus insculptus insculptus Verhoeff, 1924
  Trigoniulus insculptus Verhoeff 1924: 97 (in taxonomic discussion),
    111 (in species key),
    115 (first description),
    figs. 76-79, pl. 4.
  Trigoniulus insculptus Verhoeff 1928: 110. (In species key.)
  'Trigoniulus' insculptus Jeekel 1981: 37, 39. (In list of species recorded from eastern Australia.)
  Trigoniulus insculptus Jeekel 2001b: 77. (In species catalogue.)

Syntypes. 3 males and 1 juvenile, Atherton, Qld, January,
    1 male and 1 juvenile, Cedar Creek, Qld (see Note below), April,
    1 female, Herberton, Qld, January.
Collector, date. Collected during Dr E. Mjöberg's Australia expeditions, 1910-1913.
Deposited. No information yet. NHRM?
Note. Ferrier (2006: 6) identifies Cedar Creek as the present-day Ravenshoe area.

Trigoniulus montium Verhoeff, 1928
  Trigoniulus montium Verhoeff 1928: 110 (in species key),
    111 (first description),
    figs. 38, 39, pl. 12.
  Trigoniulus montium Verhoeff 1937: 147. (In taxonomic discussion.)
  Trigoniulus montium Verhoeff 1938: 44. (In taxonomic discussion.)
  Trigoniulus montium Attems 1953: 189. (In species key.)
  'Trigoniulus' montium Jeekel 1981: 39. (In list of species recorded from eastern Australia.)
  Trigoniulus montium Jeekel 2001b: 78. (In species catalogue.)

Holotype. Male.
Locality. Hazelbrook, NSW.
Collector, date. A. Musgrave, 24 December (year not yet known).
Deposited. AM (Verhoeff 1928: title). No specimen registered with these details is currently in AM (G. Milledge, AM, pers. comm.).