Millipedes of Australia

Spirostreptida: Cambalidae:
Dimerogonus spp.

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Dimerogonus orophilus Attems, 1903
  Dimerogonus orophilus Attems 1903: 82 (in species list),
    84 (first description),
    figs. 1-6, pl. 7.
  Dimerogonus orophilus Attems 1914: 292. (In species catalogue.)
  Dimerogonus orophilus Chamberlin 1920a: 160. (In species catalogue.)
  Dimerogonus orophilus Attems 1926: Fig. 258, p. 205.
  Dimerogonus orophilus Verhoeff 1944a: 31. (In genus revision.)
  Dimerogonus orophilus Chamberlin 1957: 40. (Designated type species of Dimerogonus.)
  Dimerogonus orophilus Jeekel 1971: 108. (In genus catalogue as type of Dimerogonus.)
  Dimerogonus orophilus Hoffman 1972: 200. (Mention in taxonomic discussion.)
  Dimerogonus orophilus Jeekel 1981: 39. (In list of species recorded from eastern Australia.)
  Dimerogonus orophilus Jeekel 1985c: Fig. 3, p. 106. From secondary source, not yet checked.
  Dimerogonus orophilus Jeekel 2006a: 66. (In review of family in Australia.)
  Dimerogonus orophilus Korsós & Johns 2009: 2 (in taxonomic discussion),
    Figs 2, 3; p. 6 (illustrating South Australian material).

Holotype. Male.
Locality. Blue Mountains, NSW (Attems 1903: 86 - 'Blaue Berge bei Sydney')
Collector, date. No information yet.
Deposited. No information yet.
Other records. Baker (1985a: 51, 1985b: 54, 1985c: 251) collected D. orophilus near Bridgewater, SA and suggests it may be widespread in the Mount Lofty Ranges. Griffin and Bull (1995) reported on behaviour and ecology of D. orophilus collected in Morialta Conservation Park, near Adelaide, SA. In both cases specimens were identified as D. orophilus by Baker.