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Rhysodesmus vicinus

Description

vicinus Saussure, 1859a: 322 [Polydesmus (Fontaria)].

Plateau du Mexique. Unspecified series.

Saussure (1860) gave a more detailed redescription of both sexes, stating that he had eleven specimens. He gave the distribution as “les terres froides du Mexique, le plateau de l’Anahuac; toutefois on l’a pris aussi à Oaxaca.” Hoffman (1999) stated that he had not found this species in the MHNG, but the collection has three dry specimens under the name Fontaria vicinus. One card-mounted specimen is labelled “Puebla, Mexique” and the other “Mexique,” the latter is badly broken. There is a broken dry specimen in a glass tube containing a locality label “Puebla, Mexique” and secured by a pin through the cork stopper. There is also a glass vial with a pair of dry gonopods secured by a pin through the cork stopper. There is no reason to suppose that these are not syntypes. There is a further syntype in the ZMHB (Moritz & Fischer, 1978; ZMB204).

Rhysodesmus vicinus (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 221, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893503

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References

  • Hoffman R. L. 1999. Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Special Publication No. 8. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville. 584 pp.
  • 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.