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
2017-09-30
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10.5281/zenodo.893503
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totonacus
Saussure, 1859a: 321
[
Polydesmus
(
Fontaria
)
]. series.
Saussure (1860) gave a more detailed redescription of Pic d’Orizaba, Mexique. Unspecified the ♂ without mentioning the ♀, but implying that he had more than one specimen. The MHNG contains one card-mounted ♂ under the name
Fontaria totonacus
. The data label reads “Pic d’Orizaba, Mexique.” There is also a glass vial containing only unidentifiable dry fragments secured by a pin through the cork stopper.
Hoffman (1999: 325)
designated this specimen as lectotype, suggesting that another syntype (now to be considered as a paralectotype) might be in the BMNH.
Rhysodesmus totonacus
(Saussure, 1859)