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 4482 2 245 273 journal article 29192 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.2 7f45fc71-fc58-4ca9-a320-5052c4aeba9d 1175-5326 1453225 E0375F43-9552-4FC7-B79B-DA8A9B1B3D42 Barydesmus aequinoctius ( Attems, 1914 ) new combination Platyrrhacus aequatorialis Brölemann, 1900 : 121 , Pl. VIII fig. 106–109 (original description; preoccupied name). Platyrhacus aequinoctius Attems, 1914 : 249 , 254 (new name; in dichotomous key). Platyrrhacus cyrtorhabdus Brölemann, 1919 : 261 (new name; diagnostic notes; synonymized in Jeekel 1963 : 89 ). Platyrhacus ( Tirodesmus ) aequinoctius : Attems 1938 : 230 , 238 (combination; description; in dichotomous key). Types : ♂ and ♀ syntypes from Ecuador : Quito ? Material originally deposited at the MNHN , we could not confirm its current state; it is not listed in their on-line database. Distribution: no certain information other than Ecuador . Comments: Brölemann (1919) proposed the name P. cyrtorhabdus for his P. aequatorialis to resolve the homonymy with P. aequatorialis Silvestri , an action made five years earlier by Attems (1914) , who named it P. aequinoctius .