Desmoxytes bicolor, Carl, 1909 b: 319 - 321

Hollier, John, Stöckli, Eduard, Wesener, Thomas, Mesibov, Robert, Decker, Peter & Sierwald, Petra, 2020, An annotated list of the millipede (Diplopoda) species described by Johann Carl, Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (1), pp. 183-240 : 189

bicolor Carl, 1909b: 319-321 , pl. 6, fig 20 [ Lophostreptus ].

Kirehe in Kissaka (Südost-Ruanda), in Bananenpflanzungen. Njarugenje bis Niansa (Central-Ruanda). Unspecified number of ♂ and ♀.

The MHNG collection contains some 53 specimens in alcohol in three jars. One jar (MHNG-ARTO-14377) contains the lectotype designated by Demange & Mauriès (1975: 69). The specimen is in two parts, and the gonopods are separate in the same vial. The identification labels are original, and have the locality “Njarugenje, Dr Carl” and “ types!” written on them respectively. A handwritten label in the jar reads “ Lophostreptus bicolor Carl. Njarungenje (Central Ruanda) LECTOTYPE – J.M. Demange 24.X.68. Exemplaire issu du bocal unique de Carl”. The second jar (MHNG-ARTO-14378) contains some 40 specimens, many of them broken and two with pins running the length of the body. There are typewritten copies of the original labels, and these specimens are paralectotypes. The third jar (MHNG-ARTO-14379) contains 12 specimens, some broken. The identification label has “Njarungenje-Niansa, Dr J Carl” written on it. Although not explicitly labelled as types, these specimens are also paralectotypes. There is a paralectotype in the NMB (inventory number NMB-DIPL-00178a) and three in the MCZL. Lophostreptus bicolor is the type species of Carlostreptus Verhoeff, 1941c by monotypy ( Jeekel, 1971).

Lophostreptus bicolor Carl, 1909 , Spirostreptidae