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Parajulus

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" Parajulus " rasilis (Karsch, 1881)

Julus rasilis Karsch, 1881:17 –18. Hoffman, 1999:170. Bueno-Villegas et al., 2004:589. Paraiulus rasilis: Pocock, 1907:58. Loomis, 1968a:75.

Type specimens. 1 ɗ and ca. 19 juvenile syntypes (ZMB), all highly fragmented, taken by "Berckenbusch" on an unknown date at Puebla, Mexico, presumably the city of Puebla and not the state (Hoffman 1999). According to Moritz & Fischer (1975:235), there are 3ɗ and 7Ψ syntypes, but I only received one male, and the remaining individuals (I counted 19 heads) appear to be immatures; the other males must be lost as are the gonopods of the existing male. Pleurotergites 3–38 of this male are on insect pins, but the anterior and caudal ends are missing; the gonopodal aperture is clearly visible, but the gonopods have been removed and were not in the vial.

Remarks. As the fourth oldest specific name in the tribe, rasilis should be assigned to a reasonably topotypical male, but I have not seen one in a preserved collection.

Notes

Published as part of Shelley, Rowland M., 2008, Way Down South: The milliped family Parajulidae (Julida: Parajulini) in Mexico and Central America; first records from El Salvador and the Baja California Peninsula, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 1893 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184362

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Julida
Family
Parajulidae
Genus
Parajulus
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Karsch, F. (1881) Neue Juliden des Berliner Museums, als Prodromus einer Juliden-Monographie. Zeitschrift fur Naturwissenschaften, 54, 1 - 79.
  • Hoffman, R. L. (1999) Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication Number 8, 1 - 584.
  • Bueno-Villegas, J., Sierwald, P., and Bond, J. E. (2004) Diplopoda. pp. 569 - 599, in B. J. Llorente, J. J. Morrone, O. Yanez, and I. Vargas (eds.), Biodiversidad, Taxonomia y Biogeografia de Artropodos de Mexico: Hacia una sintesis de su conocimiento. IV. UNAM, Mexico.
  • Loomis, H. F. (1968 a) A checklist of the millipeds of Mexico and Central America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 266, 1 - 137
  • Moritz, M., & Fischer, S. - C. (1975) Die Typen der Myriapoden-sammlung des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 3: Julida, Spirobolida. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 51 (2), 199 - 255.