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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limax
Saussure, 1859a: 322
[
Polydesmus
(
Fontaria
)
].
Terres chaudes du Mexique. Unspecified series.
Saussure (1860) stated that he had two ♂ and three ♀, and gave Cordova and San-Andrès-Tuxtla as localities. The MHNG collection has two ♂, one card-mounted and one in alcohol, under the name
Fontaria limax
. The dry ♂ has the data label “Cordova, Mexique” and is accompanied by a vial containing a broken pair of gonopods secured by a pin through the cork stopper. The ♂ in alcohol has the data label “Tuxtlant [sic], Mexique.” Both are part of the type series.
Hoffman (1966: 10)
designated the ♂ which was transferred from the dry collection to alcohol, as the lectotype. There is a further paralectotype in the ZMHB (
Moritz & Fischer, 1978; ZMB196
).
A junior synonym of
Rhysodesmus dasypus
(Gervais, 1847)