Marshallopus Verhoeff, 1937

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Genus Marshallopus Verhoeff, 1937 Marshallopus platypedatus ( Takakuwa, 1934g) [Japanese name: Sajiashi-jimukade]

Orphaneus [sic] platypedatus Takakuwa, 1934g: 495–498 , figs 1–5 (available name).

Marshallopus platypedatus: Verhoeff 1937: 227 ; Takakuwa 1940a: 49–50, figs 47–49; Takakuwa 1942: 16, 17.

Type series. Takakuwa (1934g) did not designate any types, but stated that the description was based on a single specimen. According to Takashima (1954, 1955), the holotype of this species may have been lost during World War II.

Type locality. Marschialinseln (= Marshall Islands). Takakuwa (1940a, 1942) subsequently mentioned Jaluit Atoll (in Marshall Islands) as the locality of this species.

Japanese name. A Japanese name first appeared in Takakuwa (1934g), as “Madara-hiratahige-jimukade”, subsequently modified to “Heraashi-jimukade” ( Takakuwa 1938b, 1939a). Takakuwa further modified the Japanese name as “Sajiashi-jimukade” in Takakuwa (1940), the name used by Murakami (1993) and adopted here.

Remarks. In ChiloBase 2.0 (Bonato et al. 2016n), the authorship of this species is correctly cited as Takakuwa (1934g).