Pseudoprionopeltis haastii ( Humbert & Saussure, 1869 )

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 : 210

haastii Humbert & Saussure, 1869b: 683 -684 [ Polydesmus (Oxyurus) ].

Auckland, Waikato River, Nouvelle Zélande (Musée de Vienne, Voyage Novara). Unspecified number of ♀.

No specimens found in the MHNG. The NHMW contains one broken ♀ syntype (Inventory number 3811, Acquisition number 1866.I.22). Johns (1964: 41) refers to a ♀ specimen in the NHMW as the holotype, which can be regarded as a lectotype designation by holotype assumption. The Acquisition Register gives a more detailed locality “Waikato River/Tauperi” showing that the specimen was collected during the Novara’s stay in Auckland in 1858 (Scherzer, 1862).

Pseudoprionopeltis haastii ( Humbert & Saussure, 1869)