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Arthrosphaera inermis Humbert 1865

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Arthrosphaera inermis (Humbert, 1865)

Sphaeropoeus inermis Humbert, 1865: 39 (D). Sri Lanka. Also India, Madras; Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Zephronia inermis— Butler, 1873: 179 (R, D); Karsch, 1881b: 29 (D); Preudhomme de Borre, 1884a: 24 (M); Pocock, 1892: 144 (R).

Arthrosphaera inermis— Pocock, 1899a: 273 (R); Attems, 1914: 148 (M); Jeekel, 2001a: 9 (M); Wesener & VandenSpiegel, 2009: 548 (D); Sridhar & Ashwini, 2013: 18 (R); Sridhar, 2015: 3 (M). Sphaeropoeus inermis— de Saussure & Zehntner, 1902: 14 (M).

Remark: Arthrosphaera inermis Attems, 1936, being a preoccupied name, has since become Arthrosphaera attemsi Jeekel, 2001.

Notes

Published as part of Golovatch, Sergei I. & Wesener, Thomas, 2016, A species checklist of the millipedes (Myriapoda, Diplopoda) of India, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 4129 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4129.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/257571

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