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 Genus Psammodesmus Cook, 1896 Psammodesmus Cook, 1896a : 53 . Type species: Psammodesmus cos Cook, 1896 (by original designation). Ernostyx Chamberlin, 1941 : 497 . Type species: Ernostyx moyobambus Chamberlin, 1941 (by original designation). Synonymized by Hoffman 1953b : 301 . 11 named species, up to 11 unnamed species ( Martínez-Torres 2016 ). From Panama to Peru and Brazil .