Eurydesmus angulatus Saussure, 1860

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 : 204-205

angulatus Saussure, 1860: 336 -337, fig. 25 [ Eurydesmus ].

Selon toute probabilité, le Brésil. Unspecified number of ♀.

The pagination of the publication is faulty and reads 536- 537. Saussure & Humbert (1872) gave the locality as “République Argentine” and indicated that the original description was based on a single dried specimen. The MHNG collection contains two ♂ specimens labelled “Amérique mérid.” in alcohol, with a broken pair of gonopods in a separate vial, under the name Eurydesmus angulatus . One of these is presumably the specimen used by Carl (1903) to describe and illustrate the gonopod. The whereabouts of the ♀ holotype is unknown. The NHMW collection includes a ♀ specimen from Rio de Janeiro determined by Humbert & Saussure as E. angulatus (Inventory number 3288, Acquisition number 1866.I.8); according to a label in the jar this specimen was subsequently identified as E. zebratus (Gervais, 1836) by Hoffman in 1980.

Eurydesmus angulatus Saussure, 1860