limax Saussure, 1859a: 322 [ Polydesmus (Fontaria)].

Terres chaudes du Mexique. Unspecified series.

Saussure (1860) stated that he had two ♂ and three ♀, and gave Cordova and San-Andrès-Tuxtla as localities. The MHNG collection has two ♂, one card-mounted and one in alcohol, under the name Fontaria limax . The dry ♂ has the data label “Cordova, Mexique” and is accompanied by a vial containing a broken pair of gonopods secured by a pin through the cork stopper. The ♂ in alcohol has the data label “Tuxtlant [sic], Mexique.” Both are part of the type series. Hoffman (1966: 10) designated the ♂ which was transferred from the dry collection to alcohol, as the lectotype. There is a further paralectotype in the ZMHB (Moritz & Fischer, 1978; ZMB196).

A junior synonym of Rhysodesmus dasypus (Gervais, 1847)