Barydesmus aequinoctius ( Attems, 1914 ) Recuero & Sánchez-Vialas, 2018

Recuero, Ernesto & Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, 2018, A new distinctive species of Barydesmus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Platyrhacidae) from Ecuador, with an annotated bibliographical checklist of the American Platyrhacidae, Zootaxa 4482 (2), pp. 245-273 : 251-252

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5963382
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scientific name	Barydesmus aequinoctius ( Attems, 1914 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Barydesmus aequinoctius ( Attems, 1914) View in CoL new combination

Platyrrhacus aequatorialis Brölemann, 1900: 121 View in CoL , Pl. VIII fig. 106–109 (original description; preoccupied name).

Platyrhacus aequinoctius Attems, 1914: 249 View in CoL , 254 (new name; in dichotomous key).

Platyrrhacus cyrtorhabdus Brölemann, 1919: 261 (new name; diagnostic notes; synonymized in Jeekel 1963: 89).

Platyrhacus (Tirodesmus) aequinoctius: Attems 1938: 230 View in CoL , 238 (combination; description; in dichotomous key).

Types: ♂ and ♀ syntypes from Ecuador: Quito ? Material originally deposited at the MNHN, we could not confirm its current state; it is not listed in their on-line database.

Distribution: no certain information other than Ecuador.

Comments: Brölemann (1919) proposed the name P. cyrtorhabdus for his P. aequatorialis to resolve the homonymy with P. aequatorialis Silvestri , an action made five years earlier by Attems (1914), who named it P. aequinoctius .