Rhysodesmus montezumae

Familia: Xystodesmidae
Genus: Rhysodesmus
Species:

Rhysodesmus montezumae (de Saussure, 1859).

Type locality: México: Puebla, "Anahuac plateau" [= Central Valley of Mexico] & Veracruz. [Contra later catalogs with false "Nuevo León, Anáhuac"] (Note: in Saussure, 1899 (p.323) as "Du versant oriental de la Cordillière du Mexique", i.e. From the eastern slope of the Cordillera of Mexico, with more detail in Saussure, 1860 (p.309)).

Typus: Syntypes ♂ ♀, MHNG, Lectotype ♂ designated by Hoffman, 1999 "a male from Puebla" inferred to be part of original type series.

• Polydesmus (Fontaria) montezumae Saussure, 1859: 323 Protonym. Saussure, 1860: 308, fig. 9-9e. (in both written as "Montezumae" under subgenus Fontaria)
• Fontaria montezumae (Saussure, 1856); Attems, 1898: 263. Comb. nov.
• Rhysodesmus montezumae (Saussure, 1856) Pocock, 1909: 195. Comb. nov.
• [?] Apheloria montezumae. (Unpublished combination in Millibase)

• de Saussure, H. 1859. Note sur la famille des Polydesmides, principalment au point de vue des espèces américaines. Linnaea entomologica 13: 318–327. BHL. Reference page. 

• Saussure, H. de 1860. Essai d'une faune des Myriapodes du Mexique. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève Tome 5, Part 2: 259–394, plus plates. BHL. [Also unpaginated at BHL]. Reference page. 
• Attems, C. 1898 ["1899"]. System der Polydesmiden. I. Theil. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe 67: 221–482. BHL. Reference page. 
• Pocock, R.I. 1909. Chilopoda and Diplopoda. Biologia Centrali-Americana 14: 153–200. BHL Reference page. 

• BHL bibliography
• Rhysodesmus montezumae – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Rhysodesmus montezumae.
• ION

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