Silvestrus ceylonicus ( Pocock, 1892 )

De Zoysa, H. K. S., Nguyen, Anh D. & Wickramasinghe, S., 2016, Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka, Zootaxa 4061 (5), pp. 451-482 : 453

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scientific name	Silvestrus ceylonicus ( Pocock, 1892 )
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Silvestrus ceylonicus ( Pocock, 1892) View in CoL

Polyxenus ceylonicus Pocock, 1892: 142 View in CoL , (OD).

Polyxenus View in CoL ceylonensis— Attems, 1914a: 135, (R).

Silvestrus View in CoL ceylonicus— Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin & Geoffroy, 2003: 101, (R).

Records from Sri Lanka. Pundaluoya ( Pocock, 1892)

Distribution. Only known from Sri Lanka.

Remarks. Attems (1914a) noted that the species should be assigned to the genus Monographis .

References

Attems, C. (1914 a) Die indo-australischen Myriopoden. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 80 A (4), 1 - 398.

Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M. & Geoffroy, J. - J. (2003) A revised comprehensive checklist, relational database, and taxonomic system of reference for the bristly millipedes of the world (Diplopoda, Polyxenida). African Invertebrates, 44 (1), 89 - 101.

Pocock, R. I. (1892) Report upon two collections of Myriopoda sent from Ceylon by Mr. E. E. Green, and from various parts of southern India by Mr. Edgar Thurston, of the Government Central Museum, Madras. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 7, 131 - 174.