Platyrrhacus mexicanus, Lucas, 1840

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 : 269

Polydesmus mexicanus Lucas, 1840

Polydesmus mexicanus Lucas, 1840: 523 (original description); Lucas 1849: Pl. 1 Fig. 3, 3a ; Gervais 1847: 107 (description); Hoffman 1999: 9 (taxonomic comment).

Polydesmus (Stenonia) mexicanus: Saussure 1860: 534 , Pl. VII fig. 51, 51a (combination; description based on holotype).

Platyrhacus mexicanus: Pocock 1909: 140 (combination; description).

Types: ♂ holotype from Mexico, without further locality. Material originally deposited at the MNHN, we could not confirm its current state; it is not listed in their on-line database.

Distribution: unknown, supposedly from somewhere in Mexico.

Comments: Attems's (1899) description was based on the type specimens of Barydesmus broelemanni ( Attems, 1914) . According to Loomis (1968) a possible synonym of Nyssodesmus montivagus . Hoffman (1999) suggested it could be a species of Barydesmus . Currently there are no verified records of Platyrhacidae in Mexico ( Hoffman 1999; Bueno-Villegas et al. 2004).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Left gonopod of Barydesmus nangaritza sp. nov. A: ectal view; B: mesal view; C: tip of telopodite, dorsal view.