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A new species of Phryssonotus (Diplopoda: Synxenidae) from north-eastern New South Wales, Australia

Cuong Huynh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2571-4507 A * and Anneke A. Veenstra https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2857-3583 A
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A School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Vic 3125, Australia.

* Correspondence to: cuong.huynh@deakin.edu.au

Handling Editor: Alexis Levengood

Australian Journal of Zoology 73, ZO25015 https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO25015
Submitted: 23 April 2025  Accepted: 10 July 2025  Published: 8 August 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Abstract

Phryssonotus borealis is a new synxenid species found in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. This species differs from other Phryssonotus species by its white tergal scale trichomes and its genetic make-up.

ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9BA52C7B-C1E3-421C-A37D-4A3D6FD39EEB

Keywords: 18S, COI, northern, parthenogenesis, phylogenetic analysis, scale trichome patterns.

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