Pachymerinus millepunctatus (Gervais,1847)



Pachymerinus millepunctatus (Gervais,1847)

Original description: Gervais P. (1847). Myriapodes. In: Walckenaer C.A. de, Gervais F.L .P., Histoire naturelle des Insectes Aptères, Tome 4. - Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 1-57, 210-623, see p. 311.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Geophilus Leach, 1814

Type locality: Valdivia

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1929). Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 52: 1-388, see p. 272.

Distribution:

-- within Southern America: Valparaíso

Notes: Records by Silvestri (1899 - Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 3: 148; 1905 - Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, suppl. 6: 757) have been considered incorrect as due to misidentification by some authors (Bücherl, 1942 - Memórias do Instituto Butantan, 15: 358; Chamberlin, 1955 - Lunds Universitatets Årsskrift, N.F., (2) 51: 28).