An annotated list of the millipede (Diplopoda) species described by Johann Carl Author Hollier, John Muséum d’histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland. E-mail: john. hollier @ ville-ge. ch john.hollier@ville-ge.ch Author Stöckli, Eduard Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, CH- 4051 Basel, Switzerland. E-mail: eduard. stoeckli @ bs. ch eduard.stoeckli@bs.ch Author Wesener, Thomas Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany. E-mail: T. Wesener @ leibniz-zfmk. de esener@leibniz-zfmk.de Author Mesibov, Robert West Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia 7315. E-mail: robert. mesibov @ gmail. com robert.mesibov@gmail.com Author Decker, Peter Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz, Department of Soil Zoology, Am Museum 1, D- 02826 Görlitz, Germany. E-mail: peter. decker @ senckenberg. de peter.decker@senckenberg.de Author Sierwald, Petra Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. E-mail: psierwald @ fmnh. org psierwald@fmnh.org text Revue suisse de Zoologie 2020 2020-06-04 127 1 183 240 http://dx.doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0015 journal article 10.35929/RSZ.0015 0035-418 5743454 coelebs Carl, 1941b: 605-607 , figs 57-58 [ Lankabolus ]. Ceylon : Pundaloya , ca. 1300 m ü . M. Green leg. ( Brit. Museum of Nat. Hist. ). Unspecified series ( ♀ not explicitly mentioned) . The MHNG collection contains a microscope slide preparation of gonopods (MHNG-ARTO-14436). Although not explicitly labelled as such, this is clearly part of the type series. The rest of the type series is in the BMNH. Lankabolus coelebs is the type species of the genus Lankabolus Carl, 1941 by monotypy ( Jeekel, 1971 ). A junior synonym of Lankabolus greeni ( Pocock, 1892 ) , Pachybolidae