Neoleptodesmus sumichrasti ( Humbert & Saussure, 1869 )

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 : 218

sumichrasti Humbert & Saussure, 1869a: 151 [ Polydesmus (Oxyurus) ].

Cordillera mexicana orientalis. Unspecified series.

Saussure & Humbert (1872) gave a more detailed redescription and the type locality Orizaba.The specimens were collected by Sumichrast. Carl (1903) illustrated the gonopod based on one of the “Originalexemplare” from Orizaba. The MHNG collection contains parts of at least two ♂ in alcohol under the name Polydesmus sumichrasti , at least one specimen having been transferred from the dry collection according to a label left in the box. One tube contains three vials, one with a broken body, one with a single gonopod and one with two loose segments. The second tube contains a vial with a broken pair of gonopods and an identification label in Carl’s handwriting. The third tube contains body fragments lacking the head and a label indicating that Keeton-Brown had identified it as Neoleptodesmus sp. in 1970. These are presumably all part of the type series. Hoffman (1999) refers to a ♂ holotype in the MHNG without justification.

Neoleptodesmus sumichrasti ( Humbert & Saussure, 1869) .