Check list of the Venezuelan millipedes species Author Bueno-Villegas, Julián Author Sierwald, Petra Author De Ascenção, Antonio A. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-10-15 4686 2 151 201 journal article 25226 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.2.1 25715e93-04e8-44fb-a43d-ff97b0f9d7b7 1175-5326 3490075 5C0F743B-C3D1-4B7C-A39E-656F95BDEFC7 Genus Lepturodesmus Silvestri, 1898 Lepturodesmus annulus (Brölemann, 1898) Cyclorhabdus annulus Brölemann, 1898a . Annales de la Société Entomologique de France , 67(3): 279, plate 23, figs. 66–71; HT MALE (MNHN) [ type species of Cyclorhabdus ]. Leptodesmus annulus — Attems 1899 . Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien , Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 68: 427. Leptodesmus annulus — Attems 1901 . Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg , 18(2): 88. Cyclorhabdus decorates annulus — Attems 1938 . Das Tierreich, 69: 172, fig 188, reduced to subspecies. Leptodesmus annulus — Hoffman 1975b . Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 10(2): 193, synonymized genera Ankylophallus , Caracodesmus , Cyclorhabdus and Liorhabdus under Lepturodesmus . Distribution in Venezuela : Colonia Tovar, Tovar Municipality, Aragua State . Lepturodesmus decoratus (Peters, 1864) Polydesmus ( Oxyurus ) decoratus Peters, 1864a . Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin , 1864: 533; ST MALE/FEMALE (ZMHB 246, 247, 248). Leptodesmus decoratus — Attems 1898 . Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien , Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 67: 386, plate 6, fig. 145. Leptodesmus decoratus — Attems 1901 . Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg , 18(2): 88. Caracodesmus decoratus — Verhoeff 1932 . Zoologische Jahrbücher, 62(5/6): 472. Cyclorhabdus decoratus decoratus — Attems 1938 . Das Tierreich, 69: 172, fig. 187, subspecies delineation. Lepturodesmus decoratus — Hoffman 1975b . Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 10(2): 193, synonymized genera Ankylophallus , Caracodesmus , Cyclorhabdus and Liorhabdus under Lepturodesmus . – decorates — Moritz & Fischer 1978a . Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin , 54(1): 115, type specimen catalog, species names listed in alphabetical order. Distribution in Venezuela : Chacao y Toras, Caracas, Miranda State . Lepturodesmus meinerti Silvestri, 1898 Lepturodesmus Meinerti Silvestri, 1898 . Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires , 6 (3): 67; HT MALE (ZMUC) [ type species of Lepturodesmus ]. Lepturodesmus meinerti — Attems 1899 . Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien , Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 68: 394. Lepturodesmus meinerti — Attems 1940 . Das Tierreich, 70: 490 (uncertain genus). Lepturodesmus meinerti — Hoffman 1975b . Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 10(2): 190, figs. 5, 7–8, synonymized genera Ankylophallus , Caracodesmus , Cyclorhabdus and Liorhabdus under Lepturodesmus . Ankylophallus chacaitus Chamberlin, 1941a . Bulletin of the University of Utah , 31(11): 26, species synonymized with meinerti by Hoffman (1975b: 190) ; HT MALE ( USNM ), Caracas , Miranda State . Ankylophallus chicaitus [sic]— Chamberlin 1941c . Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , 54: 142. Liorhabdus beebei Chamberlin, 1950 . Zoologica, New York , 35(2): 142, figs. 18–19; HT MALE (AMNH); species synonymized with meinerti by Hoffman 1975b: 190 . Distribution in Venezuela : Chacaito River, Catuche River, Cahreb River (name of river uncertain), Caracas, Miranda State ; Rancho Grande, Aragua State (see Beebe and Crane 1947 ). Lepturodesmus vallecolens (Chamberlin, 1941) Ankylophallus vallecolens Chamberlin, 1941a . Bulletin of the University of Utah , 6(4): 26; HT MALE (USNM). Ankylophallus vallecolens — Chamberlin 1941c . Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , 54: 142. Lepturodesmus vallecolens — Hoffman 1975b . Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 10(2): 192, figs. 1–3, 10–11; synonymized genera Ankylophallus , Caracodesmus , Cyclorhabdus and Liorhabdus under Lepturodesmus . Ankylophallus encantadus — Chamberlin, 1941a . Bulletin of the University of Utah , 6(4): 27; ST MALE (USNM); synonymized with vallecolens by Hoffman (1975b: 192) . Ankylophallus encantadus — Chamberlin 1941c . Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , 54: 142. Distribution in Venezuela : El Encantado; El Valle, near Caracas, Miranda State .