Spirostreptus kandyanus, Humbert, 1865

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 : 212

kandyanus Humbert, 1865: 49 -50, pl. 4, fig. 20, pl. 5, fig. 20 [ Spirostreptus ].

Peradenia près Kandy. One ♂ and two ♀.

The MHNG collection contains one ♂ and three ♀ in alcohol under the name Spirostreptus kandijanus . As mentioned in the original description, the ♀ are paler and smaller than the ♂ (the third ♀, not mentioned in the description, is even smaller than those described). Humbert explicitly based the description solely on the ♂, adding that the ♀ specimens were found with it. de Zoysa et al. (2016) erroneously placed this name as a junior synonym of Thyropygus allevatus (Karsch, 1881) , citing Hoffman (1982). However, in this publication Hoffman (1982: 36) revised specimens from Thailand identified as S. kandyanus by Daday, and identified them as T. allevatus , but his mention of “ Spirostreptus kandyanus (sensu Daday nec. Humbert, 1866 [sic])” clearly did not bring Humbert’s species into question. The generic placement is uncertain, and the genus Spirostreptus probably does not occur in Sri Lanka (de Zoysa et al., 2017).

‘Spirostreptus’ kandyanus Humbert, 1865