Anadenobolus totonacus (Saussure, 1860)

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 : 220

totonacus Saussure, 1860: 361 , fig. 31 [ Julus ].

Mexique, Oaxaca. Unspecified number of ♂ and ♀.

The pagination of the publication is faulty and reads 561. Carl (1919) described and illustrated the gonopods. The MHNG collection contains two card-mounted specimens under the name Spirobolus totonacus . Both specimens have larger, secondary card mounts placed under the originals, and are accompanied by glass vials containing a pair of dry gonopods secured on pins through the cork stoppers. One of the dry specimens is labelled “Mexique” and “ totonacus per expl. = zapotecus ”, the latter written by Carl in pencil. The other lacks a data label but has “Mexique” written on the species name label pinned in the box. It bears a label “cet expl. doit être le véritable totonacus ” written in pencil by Carl. Although Carl (1919: 381) identified the latter specimen as the holotype, the original description included both sexes and this does not qualify as an inadvertent lectotype designation. There is a further syntype in the MNHN (MY4396) according to their online database.

Anadenobolus totonacus (Saussure, 1860)