Harpaphe haydeniana (Wood, 1864)

Harpaphe haydeniana — Apurva et al., 2009: 117 (R); 2010: 337 (R); 2014: 8 (M); Thakur et al., 2011: 95 (M); Ramanathan & Alagesan, 2011: 365 (R); Patel, 2011: 6 (M); Guru et al., 2013a: 215 (M); 2013b: 653 (M); Alagesan & Ramanathan, 2013: 1, 2 (R); Choudhari et al., 2014: 254, 255 (D). India, “Alagarmalai Hills”, “Northern Western Ghats”; “Alagar Hills Reserve Forest, Tamil Nadu”.

Remarks: From the published illustrations (Ramanathan & Alagesan 2011, Alagesan & Ramanathan 2013, Choudhari et al. 2014, and http://www.ultimate-exotics.com/invertebrates/millipedes/yellow-spotted-millipedeharpaphe-haydeniana.php), the Indian records constitute misidentifications of a paradoxosomatid that probably belongs to Anoplodesmus . Both Harpaphe and H. haydeniana are North American endemics (e.g. Hoffman 1999), and the family is primarily Holarctic (Marek et al. 2014). According to Dash & Priyadarsini (2016), the misidentified Indian species is Anoplodesmus saussurii (Humbert, 1865) .