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Platyrhacus andersonii Pocock 1895

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48. Platyrhacus andersonii Pocock, 1895

Platyrrhachus andersonii Pocock, 1895: 788 (M, R).

Acanthodesmus andersonii — Cook, 1896: 3 (M).

Platyrrhacus Andersoni— Attems, 1899: 336 (D); Carl, 1902: 648 (D). Platyrhacus Andersonii — Attems, 1914: 245 (R, K).

Platyrhacus andersoni— Attems, 1936: 242 (L); Wang and Tang, 1965: 420 (R, K). Polydesmus (Platyrhacus) andersonii— Attems, 1938b: 222 (D, K). Platyrhacus andersonii— Weidner, 1960: 87 (L); Jeekel, 2007: 59 (L). Platyrhachus andersoni— Decker, 2010: 27 (R).

Stenonia (Acanthodesmus) pilipes — Pocock, 1889: 291 (D, R), synonymized by Pocock (1895: 788). Platyrrhacus Moebiusi Attems, 1899: 333 (D), synonymized by Jeekel (2007: 59). Platyrhacus Moebiusi — Attems, 1914: 258 (L, K).

Polydesmus (Platyrhacus) moebiusi — Attems, 1938b: 218 (D, K).

Records from Myanmar: Malewoon in Tenasserim; South Tenasserim (Pocock 1895); Sullivan Island; King Island; Owen Island (Pocock 1889). The type series of P. andersonii (= P. pilipes) consists of a male and a female (Pocock 1889), both in the London Museum, whereas that of P. moebiusi is the male holotype (Attems 1899), kept in the Vienna Museum.

Remark. Also found in Malaysia, Indonesia (Wang and Tang 1965) and Thailand (Attems 1899, 1914, 1938b; Decker 2010).

Notes

Published as part of Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2017, A checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Myanmar, with an updated list of Leonardo Fea's collecting localities, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 4350 (1) on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1050931

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