Euryurus carolinensis (Saussure, 1859)

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 : 207

carolinensis Saussure, 1859a: 325 [ Polydesmus (Paradesmus) ].

Caroline du Sud. Unspecified series.

Saussure (1860) gives a much more detailed redescription which mentions both sexes. Saussure & Humbert (1872) considered the name to be a junior synonym of P. erythropygus Brandt, 1839 . Carl (1903) described and illustrated the gonopod of an “Originalexemplar” of P. carolinensis under the name Euryurus erythropygus . The MHNG collection has two card-mounted specimens under the name Pachyurus carolinensis . One is a ♂ labelled “Caroline S., Etats Unis” the other is ♀ and unlabelled. Hoffman refers to a ♂ holotype in the MHNG but because the original series was unspecified and the redescription covers both sexes, these specimens should be considered syntypes. There is a further syntype in the ZMHB ( Moritz & Fischer, 1978; ZMB206, erroneously referred to as the holotype).

Euryurus carolinensis (Saussure, 1859)