Asiomorpha Verhoeff, 1939

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Genus Asiomorpha Verhoeff, 1939

Asiomorpha coarctata ( DeSaussure, 1860) Polydesmus coarctatus DeSaussure, 1860 . Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 15: 297, plate 18, fig. 18; ST FEMALE, (possibly in MHNG) or (MNHN) [type species of Asiomorpha ]. Orthomorpha coarctata — Brölemann 1898a . Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 67: 268. Orthomorpha coarctata — Attems 1901 . Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg, 18: 85. Orthomorpha coarctata — Jeekel 1963 . Studies on the Fauna of Suriname and other Guyanas, 4(11): 22. Orthomorpha coarctata — Drift 1963 . Studies on the Fauna of Suriname and other Guyanas, 4(19): 6. Orthomorpha coarctata — Loomis 1964 . Fieldiana, Zoology {N.S.}, 47(1): 98. Asiomorpha coarctata — Cupul-Magaña & Bueno-Villegas 2006 . Dugesiana, 13(1): 45, fig. 1a–c. Orthomorpha coarctata — Jeekel 2009 . Myriapod Memoranda, XI: 27. Orthomorpha coarctata — García et al. 2009 . In Barois et al. (Eds.), Below Ground Biodiversity in Sierra de Santa Marta, Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico: 145. Asiomorpha coarctata —Cupul-Magaña 2011 . BIOCYT, 4(16): 312, figs. 3, 6. Asiomorpha coarctata — Cupul-Magaña & Shelley 2011 . Dugesiana, 18(1): 92. Distribution in Venezuela: La Guaira, Vargas Municipality, Vargas State; Maracay, Aragua State.

Note: Asiomorpha coarctata is widely distributed in the tropical parts of the Oriental, Australian and Ethiopean region. See Nguyen & Sierwald (2013: CheckList, 9(6): 1236) for a comprehensive synonymy and citation list. Jeekel (1963: Studies on the Fauna of Suriname and other Guyanas, 4(11): 22; under Orthomorpha coarctata ) summarizes the records of this species in the new world up to 1963. Below, only literature published after 1963 containing records of this species from Venezuela, South America and Mexico are listed.