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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Barydesmus tenebrosus
Silvestri, 1898
Barydesmus tenebrosus
Silvestri, 1898b
: 3
, fig. 5 (original description).
Platyrhacus tenebrosus
:
Attems 1914
: 260
(combination);
Brölemann 1919
: 257
(description; new record; as
Platyrrhacus tenebrosus
);
Hoffman 1960
: 22
(taxonomic comments).
Platyrhacus
(
Tirodesmus
)
tenebrosus
:
Attems 1938
: 284
.
Types
:
Unspecified number of
♂
and
♀
syntypes
from
Ecuador
: "foreste del
Rio Peripa
"
. 10 syntypes are deposited at the MSNG (M. Tavano, pers. comm.).
Distribution:
Ecuador
.
Comments:
Attems (1938)
considered this species a synonym of
P. fraternus
, a decision rejected by
Hoffman (1960)
.