Polycricus Saussure & Humbert, 1872
Polycricus Saussure & Humbert, 1872
Original description: Saussure de H., Humbert A. (1872). Études sur les myriapodes. In: Milne-Edwards H. (ed.) "Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale Recherches zoologiques - Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris, 3-8, 107-148,188-207, see p. 143.
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Geophilidae
Original rank: subgenus
Type species: Arthronomalus toltecus Humbert & De Saussure, 1869 - by monotypy
Synonym(s):
Last taxonomic scrutiny: Kraus O. (1954). Myriapoden aus El Salvador - Senckenbergiana Biologica , 35: 293-439, see p. 296.
Valid Species:
- Polycricus aequatorialis Silvestri, 1897
- Polycricus brachyceps Chamberlin, 1944
- Polycricus bredini (Crabill, 1960)
- Polycricus cordobanensis (Verhoeff, 1934)
- Polycricus cruzanus Chamberlin, 1944
- Polycricus didymus (Chamberlin, 1915)
- Polycricus floridanus Cook, 1899
- Polycricus fossor Chamberlin, 1940
- Polycricus gerhardi (Chamberlin, 1944)
- Polycricus godmani (Pocock, 1896)
- Polycricus guatemalae (Chamberlin, 1921)
- Polycricus haitiensis (Chamberlin, 1915)
- Polycricus jacalanus Chamberlin, 1944
- Polycricus marginalis (Meinert, 1886)
- Polycricus nesiotes (Chamberlin, 1915)
- Polycricus nuevus Chamberlin, 1941
- Polycricus paucipes (Chamberlin, 1915)
- Polycricus proximus Chamberlin, 1943
- Polycricus schmidti (Chamberlin, 1944)
- Polycricus stolli (Pocock, 1896)
- Polycricus tardus (Chamberlin, 1921)
- Polycricus toltecus (Humbert & De Saussure, 1869)
- Polycricus verus Chamberlin, 1944
Notes: Considered a junior synonym of Pachymerium C.L. Koch, 1847 by Attems (1903 - Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, 18: 293) and Brolemann (1930 - Élements d’une Faune des Myriapodes de France. Chilopodes: 133), but actually different from this latter genus according to the original description of the type species. Firstly considered at the genus level by Latzel (1880 - Die Myriopoden der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, 1: 15).
