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Psaphodesmus insularis

Description

insularis Humbert & Saussure, 1869b: 678 -680 [Polydesmus].

Les Moluques (Musée de Genève). Unspecifed number of ♀.

Although the original description refers to the specimen(s) as ♀, Carl (1902) illustrated the gonopod based on what he stated was an “Originalexemplar.” The MHNG collection contains one card-mounted specimen under the name Platyrrhachus insularis used by Carl. It is labelled “ P. insularis, Sauss & H, Moluques” and is presumably a syntype.

Psaphodesmus insularis (Humbert & Saussure, 1869)

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 pages 211-212, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893503

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References

  • Humbert A., Saussure H. de 1869 b. Description de divers Myriapodes du Musee de Vienne. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 19: 669 - 693.
  • Carl J. 1902. Exotische Polydesmiden. Revue suisse de Zoologie 10: 563 - 679, pl. 10 - 12.
  • Humbert A., Saussure H. de 1869 a. Myriapoda nova americana. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquee 21: 149 - 159.