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Brachycerodesmus petersi Carl 1914

  • 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

petersi Carl, 1914b: 952-953, figs 228-234 [Brachycerodesmus].

La Camelia, Kaffeepflanzung, 1800 m; Medellin, am Ufer des Porce, 1600 m. Unspecified number of ♂ and ♀. The MHNG collection contains parts of at least eight specimens in alcohol in two vials. The first vial (MHNG- ARTO-18584) contains parts of eight specimens, four of them broken and possibly incomplete. The second vial contains dissected parts and a label with “ Brachycerodesmus petersi Carl ♂, VS. B’pr., Ant., Gonopodes” written on it. Both of the identification labels in the jar have “ Colombie ex Coll. Fuhrmann ” written on them, indicating that the specimens are syntypes. The whereabouts of other syntypes is unknown. Brachycerodesmus petersi is the type species of the genus Brachycerodesmus Carl, 1914 by monotypy (Jeekel, 1971).

Brachycerodesmus petersi Carl, 1914, Fuhrmannodesmidae

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 223, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0015, http://zenodo.org/record/5743454

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References

  • Carl J. 1914 b. Die Diplopoden von Columbien nebst Beitragen zur morphologie der Stemmoiuliden (Voyage Fuhrmann & Mayor). Memoires de la Societe neuchateloise des Sciences naturelles 5: 821 - 993.
  • Jeekel C. A. W. 1971. Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10 th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monographieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 5: 1 - 412.