Tirodesmus fimbriatus ( Peters, 1864 )

Recuero, Ernesto & Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, 2018, A new distinctive species of Barydesmus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Platyrhacidae) from Ecuador, with an annotated bibliographical checklist of the American Platyrhacidae, Zootaxa 4482 (2), pp. 245-273 : 269

Tirodesmus fimbriatus ( Peters, 1864)

Polydesmus ( Stenonia) fimbriatus Peters, 1864: 543 (original description); Saussure & Humbert 1872: 28 (description); Moritz & Fischer 1978: 117 ( type information).

Tirodesmus fimbriatus: Cook 1896a: 53 (diagnosis); Chamberlin 1922: 36 (taxonomic comments; new localities); Attems 1938: 231, fig. 252 (description); Hoffman 1999: 397 (comments on distribution); Shelley 2000: 70, figs 1–7 (taxonomic review; description; distribution).

Platyrrhacus fimbriatus: Attems 1899: 347 (description).

Platyrrhacus biolleyi Carl, 1902: 658 , pl. 11 figs 67–68 (original description; synonymized by Chamberlin 1922: 36).

Tirodesmus biolleyi: Pocock 1909: 146 , pl. 10 figs 9, 9a–b (description).

Nyssodesmus albomarginis Chamberlin, 1933: 16 , 13 fig. 5 (original description; synonymized by Loomis 1968: 35); Hoffman 1953a: 253 (suggests probable synonymy with Platyrhacus biolleyi ).

Platyrhacus ( Tirodesmus) albomarginis: Attems 1938: 245 (combination).

Types: P. fimbriatus , ♀ holotype from Panama: Veragua ; Warszewicz leg. Deposited at the ZMB, cat. no. 11, in the dry collection ( Moritz & Fischer 1978; J. A. Dunlop, pers. comm.).

P. biolleyi , ♂ holotype from Costa Rica: Las Delicias ; P. Biolley leg. Deposited at the MHNG, cat. no. MHNG- ARTO-14375 ( J. Hollier, pers. comm.).

N. albomarginis , ♀ holotype from Costa Rica: La Palma ; M. Valerio leg., 15-I-1929. Holotype originally in Chamberlin's collections, according to Hoffman (1999) it should be now at the NMNH, but it does not appear in their database ( D. DeRoche, pers. comm.).

Distribution: from southeastern Nicaragua to Central Panama.