Aphelidesmus Brolemann 1898
Creators: name: Bueno-Villegas, Julián
name: Sierwald, Petra
name: De Ascenção, Antonio A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Aphelidesmidae
Aphelidesmus

description: Genus Aphelidesmus Brölemann, 1898
Aphelidesmus asper Attems, 1937
Aphelidesmus asper Attems, 1937. Das Tierreich, 68: 132; ST MALE (NHMW3413).
Aphelidesmus asper — Jeekel 2000. Myriapod Memoranda, II: 89.
Distribution: Venezuela, without further detail (Attems 1937).
Aphelidesmus aterrimus (Attems, 1899)
Euryurus aterrimus Attems, 1899. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 68: 278, plate 7, fig. 162; ST MALE (NHMW).
Aphelidesmus aterrimus — Carl 1914. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel, 5: 940 (Colombia localities).
Aphelidesmus aterrimus — Attems 1914a. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 80 A(4): 207.
Aphelidesmus aterrimus — Attems 1937. Das Tierreich, 68: 130, fig. 167.
Aphelidesmus aterrimus — Jeekel 2000. Myriapod Memoranda, II: 89.
Distribution: Venezuela, without further detail (Attems 1899; 1937).
Aphelidesmus frangens Chamberlin, 1950
Aphelidesmus frangens Chamberlin, 1950. Zoologica, New York, 35(2): 141, fig. 15; HT MALE (AMNH); PT FEMALE (USNM).
Aphelidesmus frangens — Jeekel 2000. Myriapod Memoranda, II: 90.
Distribution in Venezuela: Rancho Grande, Aragua State (Chamberlin 1950; see Beebe & Crane 1947).
Aphelidesmus hermaphroditus Brölemann, 1898
Aphelidesmus hermaphroditus Brölemann, 1898b. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 67(3): 323, plate 28, figs. 4–16; ST MALE/FEMALE (MNHN) MY 2267, 2268, 2269, 2270, 2271 [type species of Aphelidesmus].
Aphelidesmus hermaphroditus — Attems 1899. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 68: 435.
Aphelidesmus hermaphroditus — Verhoeff 1910. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 35: 733, 735.
Aphelidesmus hermaphroditus — Carl 1911. Compte rendu des séances de la Societé de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle du Genève, 28: 38 (Colombia localities).
Aphelidesmus hermaphroditus — Carl 1914. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel, 5: 940 (Colombia localities).
Aphelidesmus hermaphroditus —Attems 1914. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 80 A(4): 207.
Aphelidesmus hermaphroditus — Attems 1937. Das Tierreich, 68: 130, fig. 166.
Aphelidesmus hermaphroditus — Hoffman 1954. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 44(2): 56.
Aphelidesmus hermaphroditus — Jeekel 2000. Myriapod Memoranda, II: 9, see note below.
Distribution in Venezuela: Sarare River, without further detail (Brölemann 1898b; Attems 1937), most likely referred to the Sarare river, Apure State.
Note: Brölemann (1900: 122) described the subspecies Aphelidesmus hermaphrodites kervillei from Colombia, which was listed with a full species rank by Jeekel 2000. Myriapod Memoranda, II: 91. Jeekel also lists a citation for ‘ Euryurus hermaphroditus ’ by Brölemann, 1905 in the Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 74 on page 77. The 1905 Brölemann article (Myriapodes de Costa-Rica) includes the pages 337-380. This article does not list Euryurus hermaphrotidus. We are not aware that the name ‘ Euryurus hermaphroditus ’ was used in print.
description: Published as part of Bueno-Villegas, Julián, Sierwald, Petra & De Ascenção, Antonio A., 2019, Check list of the Venezuelan millipedes species, pp. 151-201 in Zootaxa 4686 (2) on pages 158-159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3490075