Brachyspirobolus aequatorialis, Carl, 1909 b: 356 - 359

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 : 185

aequatorialis Carl, 1909 b: 356-359 , pl. 7, figs 25-30 [ Microspirobolus ].

Njarugenje (Central-Ruanda), im Tal des Njaranda, Jinja (Busoga), bei den Riponfällen des Nils. Unspecified number of ♂ and ♀.

The MHNG collection contains some 70 specimens in alcohol in two jars. The first jar (MHNG-ARTO-14417) contains 28 specimens, several of them broken. One specimen is separated in a small vial with the anterior of the body and the gonopods detached: this specimen is here designated lectotype. Two specimens with pins running the length of the body are in a second small tube. The identification labels have “Njarugenje, Central- Ruanda Dr J. Carl” and “ Rwanda centr. J. Carl Types ” written on them respectively and there is a printed “ Type ” label, indicating that the specimens are part of the type series. The second jar (MHNG-ARTO-1 4418) contains some 40 specimens, many of them broken into several parts. The original pencil-written identification label has “Njarugenje J. Carl” written on it. Although there is no type label, there is no reason to doubt that these are part of the type series. There are three syntypes in the ZMUH ( Weidner, 1960), six in the MCZL and three in the NMB (inventory number NMB-DIPL-00185a). Microspirobolus aequatorialis was designated as the type species of the genus Microspirobolus Carl, 1909 by Brölemann (1914) but the name is preoccupied by Microspirobolus Silvestri, 1898 . Carl (Carl in Brölemann, 1914) proposed the replacement name Brachyspirobolus Carl, 1914 , with B. aequatorialis as the type species by direct substitution ( Jeekel, 1971).

Brachyspirobolus aequatorialis (Carl, 1909) , Pachybolidae