An annotated world catalogue of the millipede order Callipodida (Arthropoda: Diplopoda) * Author Stoev, Pavel Author Sierwald, Petra Author Billey, Amber text Zootaxa 2008 1706 1 50 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.180904 1e729395-323c-444f-9ae5-17b22953b50e 1175-5326 180904 Abacion tesselatum Rafinesque, 1820 Abacion tesselatum Rafinesque, 1820 , Annals of Nature, 1: 9. Type material not extant, from Platops rugulosa Newport, 1844 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, 13: 267. Male HT (BMNH) from an unspecified locality. Synonymized with tesselatum by Chamberlin & Hoffman (1958) . Hoffman & Crabill, 1953 , Florida Entomol., 36 (2): 81. Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1958 , Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 212: 110. Shelley, 1984 , Can. J. Zool., 62: 982, figs 1–3. Hoffman, 1999 , Checklist Millip. North & Middle Am.: 197. McAllister & Shelley, 2003, Proc. Oklahoma Acad. Sci., 83: 84. Lysiopetalum rugulosum : Gervais, 1847 , Hist. Nat. Ins. Apt., 4: 132. Pocock, 1893 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 11: 248. Reasia spinosa Sager, 1856 , Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 8: 109. Type material not known to exist, from an unspecified locality, vicinity of Detroit, Michigan suggested as type locality by Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1958 . Synonymy proposed by Wood (1865) . Lysiopetalum lactarium : Packard, 1883 , Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., 21: 183. Packard, 1883, Am. Natur., 17: 555. Lysiopetalum eudasym McNeill, 1887 , Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. Wash., 10: 330. HT (USNM) from Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana. Synonymized with lactarium by Williams & Hefner (1928) ; with tesselatum by Chamberlin & Hoffman (1958) . Lisiopetalum [sic!] eudasum [sic!] McNeill, 1887, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. Wash., 10: 324. Lysiopetalum endasum : McNeill, 1888 , Bull. Brookville Soc. Nat. Hist., 3: 9. Spirostrephon creolum Chamberlin, 1942 , Bull. Univ. Utah, Biol. Ser., 6, 32 (8): 9, figs 24–25. Male HT (USNM) from Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, USA . Synonymized by Shelley (1984) . Chamberlin, 1947 , Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 99, 21. Causey, 1953 , Am. Midl. Nat., 50: 155. Abacion tesselatum creolum : Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1958 , Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 212: 110. Loomis, 1959 , J. Wash. Acad. Sci., 49 (5): 161. Loomis, 1969 , Florida Entomol., 52 (4): 245, fig. 1. Range: Southcentral United States , western Pennsylvania to Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, southward to the Florida pan- handle and Louisiana, also central Appalachians eastward to Virginia (cf. Hoffman 1999 ).