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
Author
Edmund Schiller
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Nesrine Akkari
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Revue suisse de Zoologie
2017
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viridis
Saussure, 1859a: 326
[
Polydesmus
(
Rhachis
)
].
Mexique, Tuxtla. Unspecified series.
Saussure (1860) gave a more detailed redescription of the ♂ without mentioning the ♀, but indicating that he had more than one specimen. The MHNG has two ♂ specimens in alcohol, labelled as types, under the name
Rhachis viridis
. These specimens have been transferred from the dry collection; both have the data label “Tuxtlant [sic], Mexique, M H de Saussure” and are obviously syntypes.
Hoffman (1999)
noted that a specimen in the NHMW, studied by
Attems (1898)
, may also be a syntype. This specimen (Inventory number 8961, Acquisition number 1883.II.1), which was collected by Sumichrast and sold to the NHMW by Bilimek in 1883, is not part of the type series. This specimen, a ♂ lacking the gonopods, is probably associated with a microscopic preparation carrying gonopods, labelled as
Rhachis viridis
but without locality data, which might have been used by
Attems (1898: 196, plate 4)
.
Rhachodesmus viridis
(Saussure, 1859)