Strongylodesmus cyaneus Saussure, 1859

John Hollier, Edmund Schiller & Nesrine Akkari, 2017, An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure’s Mexico expedition, Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2), pp. 203-224 : 209

cyaneus Saussure, 1859a: 327 [ Strongylodesmus ].

Régions tempérées du Mexique. Unspecified series.

Saussure (1860) gave a more detailed redescription of the ♂ without mentioning the ♀, and indicated that he had several specimens. Carl (1903) described and illustrated the gonopod, referring to more than one ♂ “Originalexemplare.” The MHNG collection has five ♂ specimens labelled as types in alcohol under the name Strongylodesmus cyaneus . All are broken, some have the data label “Orizaba, Mexique, M H de Saussure” and others are without data labels, but are presumably syntypes. Some more recently collected specimens are also present. Hoffman (1999) refers to a ♂ holotype in the MHNG without justification.

Strongylodesmus cyaneus Saussure, 1859