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Spirobolellus rufocinctus Carl 1932

  • 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

rufocinctus Carl, 1932: 455-457, figs 50-51 [Himantogonus].

Anaimalais: Valparai, 1100 m, 4.-9.III.1927. Talboden, in

jungen Kaffeepflanzungen und frischen Rodungen, unter Stämmen.

The MHNG collection contains 17 specimens in three vials. The first vial (MHNG-ARTO-14385) contains the ♂ lectotype designated by Jeekel (1980a: 166) according to a handwritten label. The specimen has a pin running the length of the body and is accompanied by a smaller vial with the gonopods. A handwritten identification label has the locality “Valparai” written on it. The second vial (MHNG-ARTO-14386) contains five ♂ and one ♀ paralectotypes according to a handwritten label. One specimen has a pin running the length of the body, and the original identification label has the locality “Valparai, clairières” written on it. The third vial (MHNG- ARTO-14387) contains six ♂ and four ♀ paralectotypes according to a handwritten label. Two of the specimens have pins running the length of the body, and several of the others are broken. The original identification label has the locality “Valparai” written on it. Himantogonus rufocinctus is the type species of the genus Himantogonus Carl, 1932 by monotypy (Jeekel, 1971).

Anoplodesmus rufocinctus (Carl, 1932), Paradoxosomatidae

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 pages 225-226, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0015, http://zenodo.org/record/5743454

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References

  • Carl J. 1932. Diplopoden aus Sud-Indien und Ceylon I. Polydesmidea. Revue suisse de Zoologie 39: 411 - 529.
  • Jeekel C. A. W. 1980 a. On some little known Paradoxosomatidae from India and Ceylon, with the description of four new genera (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Beaufortia 30: 163 - 178.
  • 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.