Sphaeriodesmus medius, Carl, 1902: 675 - 676

Hollier, John, Stöckli, Eduard, Wesener, Thomas, Mesibov, Robert, Decker, Peter & Sierwald, Petra, 2020, An annotated list of the millipede (Diplopoda) species described by Johann Carl, Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (1), pp. 183-240 : 214

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.35929/RSZ.0015
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6980771
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scientific name	Sphaeriodesmus medius
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medius Carl, 1902: 675-676 View in CoL , pl. 12, figs 105-106 [ Sphaeriodesmus ].

Guatemala, Dr. Oltramare (Genfer Museum). Unspecified number of ♂ and ♀.

The MHNG collection contains seven specimens in alcohol in two vials. One vial (MHNG-ARTO-18239) contains a broken specimen and a smaller vial containing gonopods. The tube has a label with “ Sphaeriodesmus medius Carl 1902 , Taf. 12, Fig. 105” handwritten by Carl in pencil, and a label with “ Lectotypus! Sig. Hoffman 79” handwritten in pencil. The other vial (MHNG- ARTO-18240) contains six specimens, four of them broken, and a label with “ Guatemala, Dr Oltramare” handwritten in pencil. The identification labels in the jar have “ Guatemala ” and “ Guatemala, Oltramare” written on them respectively. Hoffman (1999: 412) refers to a ♂ holotype in the MHNG, presumably referring to the specimen he had labelled as lectotype, but no lectotype designation has been published and all of the specimens are syntypes.

Sphaeriodesmus medius Carl, 1902 , Sphaeriodesmidae