A new distinctive species of Barydesmus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Platyrhacidae) from Ecuador, with an annotated bibliographical checklist of the American Platyrhacidae
Author
Recuero, Ernesto
Author
Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-09-18
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.2
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Psammodesmus cainarachus
(
Chamberlin, 1941
)
Platyrrhacus cainarachus
Chamberlin, 1941
: 491
, figs 116–117 (original description).
Psammodesmus cainarachus
:
Hoffman 1953b
: 303
–304 (combination; in dichotomous key);
Martínez-Torres 2016
: 48
(considered as
species inquirenda
).
Types:
♀ holotype from Peru: Rio Cainarachi,
700–1500 ft
;
XII-1925
. Deposited at the AMNH, cat. no. 9473 (
Chamberlin, 1941
), it is currently lost (
Martínez-Torres 2016
).
Distribution:
known only from the
type
locality.
Comments:
According to
Hoffman (1953b)
very close to
Psammodesmus moyobambus
(Chamberlin)
.