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 socius ( Chamberlin, 1941 ) new combination Platyrrhacus socius Chamberlin, 1941 : 496 , fig. 145–146 (original description). Types : holotype from Peru : Iquitos. Deposited at the AMNH , cat. no. 9480 ( Chamberlin 1941 ), we could not confirm its current state. Distribution: known only from the type locality.