Asphalidesmus allynensis Mesibov 2011

Specimen somewhat decoloured and macerated, length ca 6 mm, ring 6 vertical diameter ca 0.6 mm and maximum width ca 0.9 mm. Midbody metatergites with 5 transverse rows of tubercles dorsally. Paranota narrow (Fig. 3A), margin clearly divided into 3 (occasionally 4) lobes. Gonopod telopodite (Fig. 2A) divided at ca one-third telopodite height into anterior and posterior branches, below the division somewhat expanded posterolaterally, the base setose up to the division on posterior and posterolateral surfaces, the longest setae close to the division and directed distally. Posterior branch stout, curving first posteriorly, then distolaterally, mediolaterally flattening and expanding in distal half, the distal margin notched in anterior half, anterior to the notch the margin slightly bent medially and finely dentate. Posterior branch also with small, flat, near-rectangular process arising on medial surface of branch at ca one-half branch height and directed distally and slightly medially, the distal and posterior margins of the processroughened. Anterior branch more slender than posterior branch, curving smoothly posterodistally, tip slightly flattened mediolaterally and bent to lie medial to expanded tip of posterior branch and just anterodistal and lateral to tip of rectangular process on that branch. Prostatic groove following anterior surface of posterior branch, thencurving posteriorly to terminate in small, conical projection on posteromedial surface of branch at origin of rectangular process.

So far known only from cool temperate rainforest on the Barrington Tops in central, near-coastal New South Wales (Fig. 12; see also Remarks).