Psammodesmus cainarachus ( Chamberlin, 1941 )

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 : 266

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5963540
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scientific name	Psammodesmus cainarachus ( Chamberlin, 1941 )
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Psammodesmus cainarachus ( Chamberlin, 1941) View in CoL

Platyrrhacus cainarachus Chamberlin, 1941: 491 View in CoL , figs 116–117 (original description).

Psammodesmus cainarachus: Hoffman 1953b: 303 View in CoL –304 (combination; in dichotomous key); Martínez-Torres 2016: 48 (considered as species inquirenda).

Types: ♀ holotype from Peru: Rio Cainarachi, 700–1500 ft; XII-1925. Deposited at the AMNH, cat. no. 9473 ( Chamberlin, 1941), it is currently lost ( Martínez-Torres 2016).

Distribution: known only from the type locality.

Comments: According to Hoffman (1953b) very close to Psammodesmus moyobambus (Chamberlin) .