subterraneus Saussure, 1859a: 323 -324 [ Polydesmus (Leptodesmus)].

Profondeur des grandes cavernes de l’île de Cuba. Unspecified number of ♂ and ♀.

Saussure (1860) stated that he had numerous specimens and gave a more precise locality; “grotte de Cotilla, à dix lieues de la Havane,” to which he added in a footnote “et je crois aussi dans celle de Matanzas.” Carl (1903: 551-552) described the gonopod based on one of the “Originalexemplare.” The MHNG collection contains two ♂ and two ♀ card-mounted specimens under the name Leptodesmus subterraneus, all of them damaged. Each has the data label “Grottes de Cuba, M H de Saussure” and they are all syntypes. Hoffman (1999) refers to a ♂ holotype in the MHNG without justification. There are three further syntypes in the ZMHB (Moritz & Fischer, 1978; ZMB208).

Amphelictogon subterraneus subterraneus (Saussure, 1859)