| abstract | Pediculaster australis spec.n., collected from cow and horse dungin South Africa, is described along with the re-description of the legs of the morphologically closely related P. queenslandicus Rack, 1980. 3-D immages of the pharyngeal pump system, taken with a confocal Laser scanning Microscope by the junior author, allowed us to view the pumps in different angles and photos of these immages are presented for the first time, in this paper. On grounds of size variation found in collections of the same species in South Africa, two new synonyms of P. morelliae Rack 1975, syn.n. = P. luciensis Mahunka, 1981, = P. rackae Mahunka, 1986, are proposed. |