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
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.2
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Nyssodesmus tristani
(
Pocock, 1909
)
Platyrachus tristani
Pocock, 1909
: 141
, pl. X, figs 6–6b (original description);
Chamberlin 1914
: 191
(diagnostic comments).
Nyssodesmus tristani
:
Chamberlin 1922
: 39
(combination).
Platyrhacus
(
Tirodesmus
)
tristani
:
Attems 1938
: 241
(description).
Types:
♂ holotype (location unknown) from Costa Rica: La Palma; Tristan leg. According to
Loomis (1968)
at the BNHM, location unknown according to
Hoffman (1999)
, it is probably lost.
Distribution:
known only from the
type
locality.