<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Spirostreptus Brandt 1833</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <p> <i>macrourus</i> Humbert & Saussure, 1870: 176 [<i>Spirostreptus</i>].</p> <p>Brasilia. Unspecified series.</p> <p>Saussure & Humbert (1872) gave a more detailed redescription of the ♂ only. No specimens found in the MHNG. Although there is a single type specimen listed in the NHMW Acquisition Register (Acquisition number 1866.I.104), the specimen is apparently lost. Hoffman (1999: 36) considered that the original placement of this species in the genus <i>Spirostreptus</i> instead of <i>Spirobolus</i> was probably a <i>lapsus calami</i>.</p> <p>‘ <i>Spirostreptus</i> ’ <i>macrourus</i> Humbert & Saussure, 1870</p> </body> </html>