Pseudospirobolellus avernus Butler 1876

• Main Authors: De Zoysa, H. K. S., Nguyen, Anh D., Wickramasinghe, S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Diplopoda; Spirobolida; Pseudospirobolellidae; Pseudospirobolellus; Pseudospirobolellus avernus; Martin Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6059013; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1E1387ACFFC31B7AFF6F41EA1BDDF80F

Pseudospirobolellus avernus (Butler, 1876) Spirostreptus avernus Butler, 1876: 445, (OD). Spirobolus avernus— Pocock, 1893: 249, (R). Pseudospirobolellus avernus— Hoffman, 1981: 187, figs 9–10, (D). Pseudospirobolellus avernus— Jeekel, 2001c: 45, (R). Pseudospirobolellus avernus— VandenSpiegel & Golovatch, 2007: 43, fig. 2, (R). See Jeekel (2001c: 45) for more synonyms. Records from Sri Lanka. Colombo (VandenSpiegel & Golovatch, 2007). Distribution. Widely distributed pantropical species, and especially commonly found on islands. The species has been recorded from Rodrigues Island, Bhamo (Kachlin State, Burma), Java, Sulawesi (=Celebes), St. Martin Island (French West Indies), Mauritius, Saipan (Mariana Islands, Micronesia), Guam Island (Micronesia), Aru Islands, Flores, Palau, Vietnam, Guadeloupe, Cuba, the Seychelles, Singapore, Phuket Island (Thailand), Sumba, Zanzibar, Bermuda, Nuku Hiva (Marquesas), Tahiti, Comoros (VandenSpiegel & Golovatch, 2007). Published as part of De Zoysa, H. K. S., Nguyen, Anh D. & Wickramasinghe, S., 2016, Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka, pp. 451-482 in Zootaxa 4061 (5) on page 459, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/270407