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Pseudospirobolellus avernus Butler 1876

Description

Pseudospirobolellus avernus (Butler, 1876)

Spirostreptus avernus Butler, 1876: 445, (OD).

Spirobolus avernus— Pocock, 1893: 249, (R).

Pseudospirobolellus avernus— Hoffman, 1981: 187, figs 9–10, (D). Pseudospirobolellus avernus— Jeekel, 2001c: 45, (R).

Pseudospirobolellus avernus— VandenSpiegel & Golovatch, 2007: 43, fig. 2, (R). See Jeekel (2001c: 45) for more synonyms.

Records from Sri Lanka. Colombo (VandenSpiegel & Golovatch, 2007).

Distribution. Widely distributed pantropical species, and especially commonly found on islands. The species has been recorded from Rodrigues Island, Bhamo (Kachlin State, Burma), Java, Sulawesi (=Celebes), St. Martin Island (French West Indies), Mauritius, Saipan (Mariana Islands, Micronesia), Guam Island (Micronesia), Aru Islands, Flores, Palau, Vietnam, Guadeloupe, Cuba, the Seychelles, Singapore, Phuket Island (Thailand), Sumba, Zanzibar, Bermuda, Nuku Hiva (Marquesas), Tahiti, Comoros (VandenSpiegel & Golovatch, 2007).

Notes

Published as part of De Zoysa, H. K. S., Nguyen, Anh D. & Wickramasinghe, S., 2016, Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka, pp. 451-482 in Zootaxa 4061 (5) on page 459, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/270407

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References

  • Butler, A. G. (1876) Preliminary notice of new species of Arachnida and Myriapod from Rodriguez. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4, 17, 497 - 509.
  • Pocock, R. I. (1893) Upon the identity of some of the types of Diplopoda contained in the collection of the British Museum, together with description of some new species of exotic Julidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 11, 248 - 254.
  • Hoffman, R. L. (1981) Studies on spiroboloid millipeds. XIV. Notes on the family Pseudospirobolellidae, and description of a new genus and species from Thailand. Steenstrupia, 7 (7), 181 - 190.
  • Jeekel, C. A. W. (2001 c) A bibliographic catalogue of the Spirobolida of the Oriental and Australian regions (Diplopoda). Myriapod Memoranda, 4, 5 - 104.
  • Vandenspiegel, D. & Golovatch, S. I. (2007) The millipedes of the Comoro Islands (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology, 3, 41 - 57.