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Type Locality: French Guiana (unquestionably introduced from the 

 Malayan Archipelago). 



Range: Throughout the Malayan and East Indian areas, Madagascar, 

 West Africa, tropical South America, Central America, and Mexico, and the 

 West Indies; widely dispersed through commerce. In the United States it 

 is occasional in greenhouses and has been taken in the open in Texas and 

 Louisiana. 



Genus OXIDUS Cook 



Oxidus Cook, 1911, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, p. 628. 

 Kalorthomorpha Attems, 1914, Arch. Naturg., Abt. A, vol. 80, p. 191; 



1937, Das Tierreich, Lief. 68, p. 80. 

 Generotype : Fontaria gracilis Koch, by original designation. 

 Range: Indo-Australian region; introduced widely by commerce into 

 other parts of the world. 



Species: About 20 listed by Attems. 



Oxidus gracilis (Koch) 



Fontaria gracilis Koch, 1847, in Krit. Rev. Insect. Deutschlands, vol. 3, 



p. 142. 

 Paradesmus dasys Bollman, 1888, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 10, p. 619 



(type locality: Baltimore, Maryland; type: U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Kepolydesmus sontus Chamberlin, 1910, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 3, p. 



247, pi. 38, figs. 5-7 (type locality: Los Angeles, California; location 



of types unknown) . 

 Oxidus gracilis Cook, 1911, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, p. 631. 

 Orthomorpha (Kalorthomorpha) gracilis Attems, 1914, Arch. Naturg., 



Abt. A, vol. 80, p. 191; 1937, Das Tierreich, Lief. 68, p. 82, fig. 101. 

 Type: Present location unknown. 



Type Locality: Originally described from a greenhouse in Austria. 

 Range: Tropicopolitan. Introduced by commerce and well established 

 in southern and western United States, and found throughout the country 

 in greenhouses. 



Order CHORDEUMIDA 



Chordeumidae Koch, 1847, in Krit. Rev. Insect. Deutschlands, vol. 3, pp. 

 49, 119.— Latzel, 1884, Myr. Ost.-Ung. Monarch., vol. 2, p. 171. 



Craspedosomidae Saussure and Humbert, 1872, Etudes sur les myriapodes, 

 in Miss. Sci. Mexique, Zool., pt. 6, sect. 2, p. 56. 



Craspedosomatidae Cook and Collins, 1895, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 

 vol. 9, p. 1. 



Chordeumoidea Pocock, 1894, Chilopoda, Symphyla and Diplopoda . . . , 

 in Weber, Zool. Erg. Reise, Niederl. Ost-Ind., vol. 3, p. 341. — Sil- 

 vestri, 1896, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Geneva, ser. 2, vol. 16, p. 158. — 

 Pocock, 1903, Diplopoda, in Biol. Centr.-Amer., p. 51. 



