Asphalidesmus bellendenkerensis Mesibov 2011

Males and females approximately the same size, length ca 4 mm, ring 6 vertical diameter ca 0.4 mm and maximum width ca 0.7 mm. Midbody metatergites with 4 transverse rows of tubercles dorsally. Paranota wide (Fig. 3D); anterior and lateral margins in single convex curve, posterior margin straight; 3–4 weakly defined marginal lobes. Gonopod telopodite (Figs 4A, 4B) upright, rounded-triangular in cross-section, tapering slightly and flattening distally, with small, scattered setae on posterior surface to ca two-thirds telopodite height; divided at ca seven-eighths telopodite height into complex, flattened anterolateral and posteromedial branches. Anterolateral branch with distal margin curving in plane at approximate right angle to telopodite long axis, extending in tightarc posteriorly as blade-like process terminating in fold of posteromedial process close to inner (medial) side of telopodite. Posteromedial branch folded laterally on posterior margin of process, extending distally as flat process with truncate tip, the tip bluntly dentate with taller, triangular extension at posterior end. Posteromedial branch with two additional processes: (1) anterior process nested by, and curving to follow, anterolateral branch, terminating in fold of posteromedial branch just distal to tip of anterolateral branch process; (2) small lateral process arising ca halfway across diameter of ‘circle’ formed by anterolateral branch, directed posterolaterally, curling distally at tip where it reaches anterolateral branch. Prostatic groove on anteromedial surface, abruptly entering anterior process of posteromedial branch and following arc of process, opening at process tip.

Known from tropical rainforest in far north Queensland on the Bellenden Ker Range and on the Malbon Thompson Range near Gordonvale; the two localities are ca 20 km apart (Fig. 12).