Odontopeltis balzanii Silvestri, 1895

Pena-Barbosa, João P. P., Sierwald, Petra & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2013, On the largest chelodesmid millipedes: taxonomic review and cladistic analysis of the genus Odontopeltis Pocock, 1894 (Diplopoda; Polydesmida; Chelodesmidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (4), pp. 737-764 : 755

Odontopeltis balzanii Silvestri, 1895 ,

see Silvestri, 1895a: 769, fig 1.

Holotype male, from Missiones Mosetenes, Bolivia, should be in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa, Italy.

Note: the type was deposited in the Genoa Museum and was loaned on 10 September 10 1902 to Filippo Silvestri in Portici, Italy ( Jeekel, 1965: 122). In 2005, the Genoa Museum received the material back, but the type specimen of Odontopeltis balzanii was not returned (Dr Giuliano Doria, pers. comm.). Silvestri’s (1895a) illustration shows a small prefemoral process, and an acropodite with three apical projections. The presence of the prefemoral process excludes this species from the genus Odontopeltis .