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 Proaspis aitia Loomis, 1941 Proaspis aitia Loomis, 1941 : 194 , figs 10–12 (original description). Jeekel 2007 : 91 (taxonomic comments); Shelley & Martínez-Torres 2013 : 481 , figs 2–5 (description based on male topotypes). Types : holotype from Haiti : roadside between Camp Perron and Rivière Glace; 31-VII-1940 . Deposited at the NMNH , cat. no. 1409 ( D. DeRoche , pers. comm.). Distribution: Western Tiburon Peninsula, Haiti .