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Polydesmus angustus Latzel 



Polydesmus complanatus angustus Latzel, 1884, Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Rouen, 



ann. 19, ser. 2, pp. 262, 267. 

 Polydesmus verhoeffi var. angustatus Attems, 1940, Das Tierreich, Lief. 



70, p. 12. 

 Type: Vienna Museum. 

 Type Locality: Normandie, France. 



Range: Generally distributed over western Europe. In America it has 

 been found in Louisiana and also at Mexico City. 



Polydesmus complanatus (Linnaeus) 



Julus complanatus Linnaeus, 1761, Fauna Svecica, ed. 2, p. 502. 



Polydesmus complanatus Latreille, 1802, Histoire naturelle . . . des 

 crustaces et des insectes, vol. 3, p. 44. — Attems, 1940, Das Tierreich, 

 Lief. 70, p. 6, fig. 2. — Chamber lin, 1951, Great Basin Nat., vol. 11, 

 p. 27. 



Type : Not known to exist. 



Type Locality : Europe. 



Range: Europe and eastern North America (e. g.. New Jersey) , where in- 

 troduced and established. 



Polydesmus denticulatus Koch 



Polydesmus denticulatus + scabratus Koch, 1847, in Krit, Rev. Insect. 



Deutschlands, vol. 3, pp. 135, 136.— Latzel, 1884, Myr. Ost.-Ung. 



Monarch., vol. 2, p. 141, pi. 5, figs. 59, 60. — Palmen, 1952, Ann. 



Zool. Soc. 'Vanamo', vol. 15, No. 1, p. 14. 

 Type: Location unknown. 

 Type Locality: Germany. 



Range: Europe, from France to Sweden and Norway. Known in North 

 America from Newfoundland. 



Polydesmus inconstans Latzel 



Polydesmus inconstans Latzel, 1884, Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Rouen, ser. 2, 



ann. 19, p. 269, pi. 1, fig. 3. — Palmen, 1952, Ann. Zool. Soc. 



'Vanamo', vol. 15, p. 13. 

 Polydesmus distractus Latzel, 1888, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse, Proc. 



Verb., p. Ixxxv. 

 Polydesmus coriaceus var. borealis Porat, 1889, Ent. Tidskr., vol. 10, p. 71. 

 Polydesmus rhenanus Verhoeff, 1891, Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 36, 



p.l21,pL5,fig.L 

 Polydesmus coriaceus (not Porat) Schubart, 1934, in Dahl, Die Tierwelt 



Deutschlands, Teil 28, p. 165, fig. 264.— Chamberlin, 1947, Proc. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 99, p. 22. 



