FIRST RECORD OF CAMPODEIDS (DIPLURA CAMPODEIDAE) FROM CAVES IN AUSTRALIA

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Updated 1 decade ago

Abstract: Nine specimens of Campodeidae, collected from six caves in northern and northwestern Australia, all belonging to the same species, Cocytocampa lumphreysi sp. nov., are described. The caves, located at Cape Range and Kimberley, Western Australia, and Katherine, Northern Territory, are separated by more than 2000 kilometres across an extremely arid region. The samples included at least two populations, separated on the basis of the number of microchaetae on urosternites II to VII, but the low number of specimens does not allow an accurate statistical treatment.