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Pseudopolydesmus americanus Carl 1902

  • 1. Muséum d'histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland. E-mail: john. hollier @ ville-ge. ch
  • 2. Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, CH- 4051 Basel, Switzerland. E-mail: eduard. stoeckli @ bs. ch
  • 3. Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany. E-mail: T. Wesener @ leibniz-zfmk. de
  • 4. West Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia 7315. E-mail: robert. mesibov @ gmail. com
  • 5. Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz, Department of Soil Zoology, Am Museum 1, D- 02826 Görlitz, Germany. E-mail: peter. decker @ senckenberg. de
  • 6. Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. E-mail: psierwald @ fmnh. org

Description

americanus Carl, 1902: 611-613, pl. 11, fig. 37 [Polydesmus].

Texas, J. Boll (Genfer Museum). Two ♂.

The MHNG collection contains two specimens in alcohol (MHNG-ARTO-14296) under the name Pseudopolydesmus americanus. Both specimens have a pin running the length of the body. The data label in the jar reads “ Texas, J. Boll” and one of the identification labels has “ Type ” written on it, indicating that the specimens are syntypes. A handwritten note states that Hoffman examined the specimens in 1960 and intended to designate the smaller specimen as the lectotype; this designation does not appear to have been published and Hoffman (1999: 445) erroneously refers to a holotype deposited in the MHNG. Two microscope slide preparations of gonopods of syntypes (MHNG- ARTO-14297) are in a case glued to the lid of the jar.

A junior synonym of Pseudopolydesmus pinetorum (Bollman, 1888), Polydesmidae

Notes

Published as part of Hollier, John, Stöckli, Eduard, Wesener, Thomas, Mesibov, Robert, Decker, Peter & Sierwald, Petra, 2020, An annotated list of the millipede (Diplopoda) species described by Johann Carl, pp. 183-240 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (1) on page 186, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0015, http://zenodo.org/record/5743454

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References

  • Carl J. 1902. Exotische Polydesmiden. Revue suisse de Zoologie 10: 563 - 679.
  • 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.
  • Bollman C. H. 1888. A preliminary list of the Myriapoda of Arkansas, with descriptions of new species. Entomologica Americana 4: 1 - 8.