Stenodesmus mexicanus 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 : 214

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.893503
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5999467
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scientific name	Stenodesmus mexicanus Saussure, 1859
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mexicanus Saussure, 1859a: 327 View in CoL [ Stenodesmus View in CoL ].

Terres chaudes du Mexique. Unspecified number of ♂ and ♀.

Saussure (1860) gave a more detailed description and the type locality as Cordova. Carl (1903) stated that the dry ♂ type specimen was so badly damaged that he could only examine the last segment of the gonopod. The MHNG collection has one card-mounted ♀ under the name Stenodesmus mexicanus . It is labelled “t.c. [terres chaudes], Mexique” and the anterior part of the body is missing. This specimen is clearly a syntype. The remains of the ♂ syntype studied by Carl are apparently lost.

Stenodesmus mexicanus Saussure, 1859 View in CoL