An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure’s Mexico expedition
Author
John Hollier
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Edmund Schiller
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Nesrine Akkari
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Revue suisse de Zoologie
2017
2017-09-30
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aztecus
Saussure, 1859b: 331
[
Julus
].
Cordova au Mexique. Unspecified series.
Saussure (1860) gave a much more detailed redescription of both sexes. He stated that he had many specimens from “les parties chaudes du Mexique, à Vera Cruz, à Cordova, à Orizaba etc.”
Carl (1919)
described and illustrated the gonopods. The MHNG collection contains three ♂ and two ♀ card-mounted specimens and one ♀ directly pinned under the name
Spirobolus aztecus
and many specimens in alcohol in three jars under the name
Rhinocricus aztecus
. The three dry ♂ each have the label “Mexique, Voyage de Saussure,” two of the ♀ are labelled “Mexique, Vge de Saussure” and the third is labelled “Orizava [sic] Mexique, Vge de Saussure.” These are all syntypes. One of the jars containing two ♂ specimens in alcohol has the label “
Spirobolus aztecus Sss
, type, Mexique, Sumichrast.” The second, labelled “Holotypus” contains around twenty broken specimens without a contemporary data label. The third contains around eight broken specimens and is labelled “
Spirobolus aztecus Sauss.
, Mexique (Sumichrast).” It is likely that all of these are syntypes. There are further syntypes in the ZMHB (
Moritz & Fischer, 1975; ZMB209
) and in the MNHN (MY305, MY4328) according to their online database.
Anadenobolus aztecus
(Saussure, 1859)