Anoplodesmus anthracinus Pocock, 1895

Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2017, A checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Myanmar, with an updated list of Leonardo Fea’s collecting localities, Zootaxa 4350 (1), pp. 1-46 : 16-17

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3514028

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Anoplodesmus anthracinus Pocock, 1895
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51. Anoplodesmus anthracinus Pocock, 1895 View in CoL

Anoplodesmus anthracinus Pocock, 1895: 798 View in CoL (D).

Anoplodesmus anthracinus View in CoL — Attems, 1898: 349 (D, K); 1914: 205 (L, K); 1936: 208 (L, K); 1937: 99 (D, K); Weidner, 1960: 79 (L); Jeekel, 1965a: 112 (D, R, K); 1965b: 124 (L); 1968: 59 (M); Hoffman, 1973b: 376 (D, M); Nguyen, 2010: 53 (L); Nguyen and Sierwald, 2013: 1274 (L); Minelli, 2015: 406 (M); Golovatch and Wesener, 2016: 40 View Cited Treatment (L).

Prionopeltis kathanus Chamberlin, 1921: 80 View in CoL (D), synonymized by Hoffman (1973b: 376).

Anoplodesmus kathanus View in CoL — Attems, 1936: 209 (L); 1937: 106 (L, M); Jeekel, 1965a: 110 (L, M); 1968: 59 (M).

Records from Myanmar: Rangoon ( Pocock 1895); Minhla ( Jeekel 1965a); Upper Burma, Katha, Sagaing ( Chamberlin 1921). Based on an indefinite number of syntypes of both sexes, shared between the collections of the London, Genoa and Hamburg museums ( Weidner 1960; Hoffman 1973b), the holotype and paratypes of A. kathanus View in CoL are in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Harvard, U.S.A. ( Chamberlin 1921; Hoffman 1973b).

Remarks. This is the type species of the genus Anoplodesmus .

Attems (1937) synonymized Jonespeltis splendidus Verhoeff, 1936 , from Kovalam, India ( Verhoeff 1936) with A. anthracinus , from Rangoon, Myanmar, without justification. But Jeekel (1965a) resurrected both to their fullspecies statuses. Several studies on the biology and ecology of Jonespeltis splendidus had been accomplished in India ( Bano et al. 1976; Bano and Krishnamoorthy 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981a, 1981b, 1985; Bano 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996a). Bano (1996b), in a summary of the paradoxosomatid fauna of India, followed Attems (1937) and considered Jonespeltis splendidus as a junior synonym of Anoplodesmus anthracinus . This provided the first formal record of A. anthracinus from India. There is no doubt that Anoplodesmus is a subjective senior synonym of Jonespeltis Verhoeff, 1936 (e.g. Nguyen and Sierwald 2013), but the status of splendidus vs. anthracinus remains dubious (e.g. Golovatch and Wesener 2016). For the time being, we consider A. anthracinus as a species found in Myanmar, as well as Malaysia and Sri Lanka ( Golovatch and Stoev 2013).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Polydesmida

Family

Paradoxosomatidae

Genus

Anoplodesmus

Loc

Anoplodesmus anthracinus Pocock, 1895

Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak 2017
2017
Loc

Anoplodesmus kathanus

Jeekel 1965: 110
Attems 1936: 209
1936
Loc

Prionopeltis kathanus

Hoffman 1973: 376
Chamberlin 1921: 80
1921
Loc

Anoplodesmus anthracinus

Golovatch 2016: 40
Minelli 2015: 406
Nguyen 2013: 1274
Nguyen 2010: 53
Hoffman 1973: 376
Jeekel 1965: 112
Weidner 1960: 79
Attems 1898: 349
1898
Loc

Anoplodesmus anthracinus

Pocock 1895: 798
1895
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