Trichopeltis watsoni Pocock, 1895

Shelley, Rowland M., 2014, A summary of the milliped faunas of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Kashmir (Arthropoda: Diplopoda), Insecta Mundi 2014 (368), pp. 1-7 : 5

Trichopeltis watsoni Pocock, 1895

Published record. Chittagong Div., Chittagong Dist., Lohagara Upazila, “Shishgk Valley, Chittagong Hills Tract,” exact location uncertain but apparently near National Medical Hall east of Chittagong itself ( Attems 1936, 1940).

Remarks. Trichopeltis watsoni , a widespread Asian species whose type locality is the North Chin Hills, Chin State, Myanmar, has a convoluted nomenclatural history ( Golovatch et al. 2010). Pocock (1895) originally assigned it to this genus, but Cook (1896) designated it the type species of his new genus, Otodesmus . Attems (1914) repeated this assignment though he earlier ( Attems 1899) cited watsoni under both Trichopeltis and Otodesmus . Attems (1936) reported it from the Chittagong Hills among other localities but mistakenly named the genus, Trichodesmus ; four years later, he ( Attems 1940) correctly cited it in combination with Trichopeltis . Hoffman (1973, 1980), the latter by implication, returned watsoni to Otodesmus where it remained until material of related cryptodesmids required Golovatch et al. (2010) to place Otodesmus in synonymy under Trichopeltis .