Asphalidesmus otwayensis Mesibov 2011

Males and females approximately the same size, length ca 6 mm, ring 6 vertical diameter ca 0.6 mm and maximum width ca 1.1 mm. Midbody metatergites with 5 transverse rows of tubercles dorsally. Paranota wide (Fig. 3C); anterior and lateral margins in single convex curve, posterior margin straight with small round tab near base; 4–5 weakly defined marginal lobes. Ring 18 produced dorsally as large, rounded swelling (Fig. 1G) in both males and females. Gonopod telopodite (Figs 2D, 9) divided into anterior and posterior branches at ca three-quarters telopodite height; telopodite widest just below division, bent posterodistally at ca one-half telopodite height, tapering basally to small base with small, rounded lobes directed posteriorly and posterolaterally, each lobe carrying a few small setae; a few small setae on posterior surface of telopodite just basal to division. Anterior branch anteroposteriorly flattened, directed posterodistally, expanded at tip into rhomboid, the central portion of the rhomboid thickened as finger-like process. Posterior branch similarly flattened, directed distally, the tip expanded into rhomboid lying just anterior to and parallel with rhomboid of anterior branch (leaving a smallgap between), thus crossing anterior branch and terminating anterior to the latter’s tip. Prostatic groove on anterior surface of telopodite, continuing on anterior branch to terminate at tip of finger-like process. Gonopod telopodites crossed near tips (see Remarks), with one telopodite nesting in bend on posterior surface of other telopodite.

Known from cool temperate rainforest and wet eucalypt forest in the Otway Ranges in southwestern Victoria (Fig. 12).