Rhinocricus nattereri ( Humbert & Saussure, 1870 )

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 : 215

nattereri Humbert & Saussure, 1870: 176 [ Spirostreptus ].

Brasilia. Unspecified series.

Saussure & Humbert (1872) gave a more detailed redescription of the ♂ only, the type locality as Caicara and stated that the specimen(s) had been collected by Natterer. No specimens found in the MHNG. The NHMW contains a single ♂ syntype collected by Natterer (Inventory number 2171, Acquisition number 1866.I.48). The locality probably refers to a fazenda by the Paraguay River where Natterer stayed between October 1825 and June 1826 ( Schmutzer, 2007). Hoffman (1999: 36) considered the original placement of this species in the genus Spirostreptus instead of Spirobolus a probable lapsus calami. The generic placement follows Marek et al. (2003).

Rhinocricus nattereri ( Humbert & Saussure, 1870)