Golovatch S.I.1, Akkari N.2 2024. New records of the millipede genus Aschistodesmus Pocock, 1898 from the Solomon Islands, Melanesia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.33. No.2: 149–159 [in English].
1 Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, 119071, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: sgolovatch@yandex.ru https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7159-5484
2 Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria. E-mail: nesrine.akkari@nhm-wien.ac.at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5019-4833
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.33.2.01
ABSTRACT. Two species of the Papuan genus Aschistodesmus are recorded, redescribed and illustrated: A. vinctus (Attems, 1934), from Guadalcanal (Isatabu) Island, and A. spatulifer Jeekel, 2000, from Choiseul (Lauru) Island, both Solomon Islands. The previously enigmatic provenance of A. spatulifer is established to be from Choiseul. The following formal synonymy is advanced: A. signatus extinctus (Attems, 1932) = A. signatus signatus (Attems, 1897), syn.n.
KEY WORDS: taxonomy, faunistics, iconography, new synonym.