Messicobolus mystecus (Saussure, 1860)

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

mystecus Saussure, 1860: 369 -370, fig. 36 [ Julus ].

Régions tempérées du Mexique, Oaxaca. Unspecified number of ♂ and ♀.

Carl (1919) described and illustrated the gonopods. The MHNG collection contains one ♂ specimen in alcohol under the name Messicobolus mystecus . It is labelled “t. c. Mexique” and is accompanied by a glass vial containing a pair of gonopods with the label “ Messicobolus tepanacus Sauss. = mystecus Sauss voir Carl 1919, métatype ♂, Gonopodes postérieures.” This specimen is the one referred to by Carl (1919: 387) as having been labelled “ tepanacus ” and it is not a syntype. The whereabouts of the type specimens is unknown.

Messicobolus mystecus (Saussure, 1860)