Asphalidesmus dorrigensis Mesibov 2011

Males slightly smaller than females, length ca 5 mm, ring 6 vertical diameter ca 0.5 mm and maximum width ca 0.9 mm. Midbody metatergites with 3–4 transverse rows of tubercles dorsally. Paranota wide (Figs 1B, 3B); anterior and lateral margins in single convex curve, posterior margin straight; 3–4 weakly defined marginal lobes. Gonopod telopodite (Figs 2B, 6A, 6B) more or less cylindrical, tapering distally, divided at between two-thirds and three-quarters telopodite height into anterior and posterior branches, a few scattered setae basally on posterior and posteromedial surfaces. Anterior branch directed anterodistally, curving slightly medially, flattening apically, tip with thin, ovoid fringe (folded over inFig. 5B). Posterior branch divided into Y-shaped anterior and posterior processes. Posterior process directed distally, with ‘Y’ in anteroposterior plane, both arms of ‘Y’ rounded at tip. Anterior process bent slightly laterally, with ‘Y’ in mediolateral plane, medial arm directed distally (curled over inFig. 5B), lateral arm directed laterally with small tab near tip on anterior surface. Prostatic groove on anteromedial surface of telopodite, running to medial arm of anterior process of posterior branch and terminating at tip.

Rainforest and wet eucalypt forest in northeastern, near-coastal New South Wales (Fig. 12).