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 Nyssodesmus nicaraguanus Chamberlin, 1922 Nyssodesmus nicaraguanus Chamberlin, 1922 : 39 , pl. 16 figs 1–4. Platyrhacus ( Tirodesmus ) nicaraguanus : Attems 1938 : 244 , fig. 270 (description). Types : ♂ ♀ syntypes from Nicaragua : Machucha (probably a misspelling of Machuca). Deposited at the MCZ, cat. no. 87227-87228 (https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:87227 https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/ MCZ:IZ:87228 last viewed 19-II-2018 ). Distribution: known only from the type locality.