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 Rhinotus Cook, 1896 Rhinotus purpureus ( Pocock, 1894 ) Siphonotus purpureus Pocock 1894 . Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 24(157): 479, plate 37, fig. 5; ST FEMALE (BMNH), from St. Vincent , Lesser Antilles. Siphonotus purpureus — Loomis 1934 . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 89(14): 9. Siphonoconus purpureus — Causey 1965 . Proceedings of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences, 28: 53, fig. 1. Rhinotus purpureus — Hoffman 1977 . Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, NF 24(4–5): 429. Rhinotus purpureus — Hoffman 1999 . Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication Number 8: 36. Siphonotus africanus Cook, 1896 . American Naturalist, 30(358): 842, plate 18, figs. 1–15. ST (USNM) from Freetown, Sierra Leone ; Hoffman 1977 . Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, NF 24(4–5): 429, suggested synonymy; listed as a potential synonym in Hoffman (1999) . Siphonotus miamiensis Causey, 1953 . Florida Entomologist, 36: 71, figs. 1–2. MALE HT (INHS) from Miami, Dade Co., Florida . Synonymized by Causey 1965 . Proceedings of the Louisiana of Sciences, 28: 53. Distribution in Venezuela : The presence of the species in Caracas, Venezuela was assumed by Hoffman (1999: 36) .