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 azulae ( Kraus, 1956 ) new combination Platyrhacus ( Tirodesmus ) azulae Kraus, 1956 : 148 , Pl. 19 figs 32–33 (original description); Kraus 1957 : 99 , Pl. 8 figs 15–18 (comments on morphological variability; new records). Types : ♂ holotype from Peru : Dept. San Martin : " Divisoria in der Cordillera Azul " (water divide between Ucayali and Huallaga river basins), 1600 m ; Weyrauch leg., 31-VII-1955 . Deposited at the SMF , cat. no. 2535 ( Senckenberg on-line database: https://search.senckenberg.de/aquila-public-search/). Distribution: Cordillera Azul in Peru .