Rhysodesmus dasypus (Gervais, 1847)

John Hollier, Edmund Schiller & Nesrine Akkari, 2017, An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure’s Mexico expedition, Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2), pp. 203-224 : 213

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)