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MilliBase name details

Diaporus Silvestri, 1897

AphiaID

893461 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:893461)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (junior subjective synonym (Hoffman, 1980))

Accepted name

Orthoporus Silvestri, 1897

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Alloporus americanus Silvestri, 1895 accepted as Orthoporus americanus (Silvestri, 1895)

Parent

Spirostreptini Attems, 1909

Direct children (14)

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Species Diaporus bigoti Demange, 1969 (uncertain)
Species Diaporus americanus (Silvestri, 1895) accepted as Orthoporus americanus (Silvestri, 1895)
Species Diaporus augur Silvestri, 1897 accepted as Isoporostreptus augur (Silvestri, 1897)
Species Diaporus barroensis Chamberlin, 1925 accepted as Orthoporus festae (Silvestri, 1896)
Species Diaporus chiriquensis (Pocock, 1909) accepted as Orthoporus chiriquensis Pocock, 1910
Species Diaporus culebrae Chamberlin, 1922 accepted as Orthoporus festae (Silvestri, 1896)
Species Diaporus fulvomaculatus Schubart, 1958 accepted as Orthoporus fulvomaculatus (Schubart, 1958)
Species Diaporus margarites Chamberlin, 1946 accepted as Orthoporus margarites (Chamberlin, 1946)
Species Diaporus obesus (Attems, 1952) accepted as Odontostreptus obesus (Attems, 1952)
Species Diaporus omalopyge (Brölemann, 1905) accepted as Orthoporus omalopyge (Brölemann, 1905)
Species Diaporus palmensis (Brölemann, 1905) accepted as Orthoporus palmensis (Brölemann, 1905)
Species Diaporus perproximus Silvestri, 1902 accepted as Orthoporus perproximus (Silvestri, 1902)
Species Diaporus torquatus Schubart, 1958 accepted as Orthoporus torquatus (Schubart, 1958)
Species Diaporus typotopyge (Brölemann, 1905) accepted as Orthoporus typotopyge (Brölemann, 1905)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Original description

Silvestri, F. (1897). Viaggio del Dott. Alfredo Borelli nel Chaco boliviano e nella Repubblica Argentina. IV. Chilopodi e Diplopod. Bollettino del musei di zoologia e di anatomia comparata della Reale Università di Torino, 12(283): 1-11. Torino, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11809935
page(s): 8 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Decker, P.; Sierwald, P.; Spelda, J.; Barber, A.D.; Antic, D.; Bouzan, R.; Enghoff, H.; Hennen, D.; Iniesta, L. F. M.; Means, J.; Nguyen, A. D.; Simmons, E.; Wesener, T. (2026). MilliBase. Diaporus Silvestri, 1897. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/rest/AphiaChildrenByAphiaID/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=893461 on 2026-08-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-12-21 12:20:58Z

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Sierwald, Petra

2017-06-06 06:35:10Z

changed

Decker, Peter

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Sources (6)

original description Silvestri, F. (1897). Viaggio del Dott. Alfredo Borelli nel Chaco boliviano e nella Repubblica Argentina. IV. Chilopodi e Diplopod. Bollettino del musei di zoologia e di anatomia comparata della Reale Università di Torino, 12(283): 1-11. Torino, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11809935
page(s): 8 [details]

basis of record Krabbe, E. (1982). Systematik der Spirostreptidae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptomorpha). Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (N.F.), 24: 1-476. Hamburg
page(s): 347 [details]

additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412. Amsterdam, available online at https://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf
page(s): 124 [details]

additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 94 [details]

source of synonymy Krabbe, E. (1982). Systematik der Spirostreptidae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptomorpha). Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (N.F.), 24: 1-476. Hamburg
page(s): 347 [details]

source of synonymy Hoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63590410
page(s): 120 [details]