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Rhysodesmus fraternus

Description

fraternus Saussure, 1859a: 322 -323 [Polydesmus (Fontaria)].

Côte orientale du Mexique. Unspecified number of ♂ and ♀.

Saussure (1860) stated that he had four ♂ and three ♀, collected “dans les vallées du versant oriental de la Cordillère”. The MHNG has two ♂ and two ♀ in the dry collection under the name Fontaria fraternus. One ♂ and the two ♀ have the data label “Cordova, Mexique, M H de Saussure,” the other ♂ has “Pic Orizaba, Mexique, M H de Saussure.” There is also a glass vial containing a pair of gonopods secured by a pin through the cork stopper. All are part of the type series; the ♂ from Cordova was designated as the lectotype by Hoffman (1970: 155). There is a paralectotype in the ZMHB (Moritz & Fischer, 1978; ZMB202).

Rhysodesmus fraternus (Saussure, 1859)

Notes

Published as part of John Hollier, Edmund Schiller & Nesrine Akkari, 2017, An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure's Mexico expedition, pp. 203-224 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2) on page 210, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893503

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References

  • Hoffman R. L. 1970. Random studies on Rhysodesmus. I. Notes and redescriptions of miscellaneous species. The Radford Review 24: 143 - 162.
  • Moritz M., Fischer S. - C. 1978. Die Typen der Myriapoden- Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 4: Polydesmida (Paradoxosomatidea, Sphaeriodesmidea, Polydesmidea). Teil 5: Erganzungen (Teile 1 bis 3). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 54: 99 - 160.