Millipedes of Australia

Polyzoniida: Siphonotidae: Siphonotinae: Rhinotini

One Australian genus:

Rhinotus Cook, 1896
  Rhinotus
    Rhinotus Cook 1896b: 50. (See Note below.) From secondary source, not yet checked.
    Rhinotus Silvestri 1897b: 646. (In genus catalogue.)
    Rhinotus Carl 1912: 126. From secondary source, not yet checked.
    Rhinotus Verhoeff 1924: 128. (In taxonomic discussion.)
    Rhinotus Attems 1926: 213. (In genus key.)
    Rhinotus Verhoeff 1932: 1419. (In genus key.)
    Rhinotus Attems 1951: 217. (In genus key.)
    Rhinotus Jeekel 1971: 43. (In genus catalogue; see Note below.)
    Rhinotus Hoffman 1977: 429 (in taxonomic discussion; 'may well prove to be a monotypic genus',
     430 (in genus list).
    Rhinotus Hoffman 1980: 73. (In genus catalogue.)
    Rhinotus Jeekel 1981: 27. (In discussion of species recorded from eastern Australia; suggests that use of this name for Australian species 'may prove to be incorrect'.)
    Rhinotus Shelley et al. 2000: 15. (In genus catalogue.)
  Boninozonium
    Boninozonium Takakuwa 1942: 424. From secondary source, not yet checked.
    Boninozonium Jeekel 1971: 36. (In genus catalogue.)
    Boninozonium Hoffman 1977: 430. (In genus list, as synonym of Rhinotus; first synonymisation?)
    Boninozonium Hoffman 1980: 73. (In genus catalogue, as synonym of Rhinotus.)
    [Type species: Boninozonium okabei Takakuwa, 1942, by monotypy. (Bonin Island)]
  Orsilochus
    Orsilochus Attems 1900: 166. (First description; junior homonym of Orsilochus Burmeister, 1847 (Coleoptera) and Orsilochus Stål, 1867 (Hemiptera).)
    Orsilochus Carl 1912: 126. From secondary source, not yet checked.
    Orsilochus Verhoeff 1924: 128. (Cited as synonym of Rhinotus.)
    Orsilochus Verhoeff 1932: 1419. (Cited as synonym of Rhinotus.)
    Orsilochus Jeekel 1971: 41. (In genus catalogue.)
    Orsilochus Hoffman 1977: 430. (In genus list, as synonym of Rhinotus.)
    Orsilochus Hoffman 1980: 73. (In genus catalogue, as synonym of Rhinotus.)
    [Type species: Orsilochus crassiceps Attems, 1900, by monotypy. (Seychelles)]
  Paraburenia
    Paraburenia Verhoeff 1939a: 80. From secondary source, not yet checked.
    Paraburenia Attems 1951: 217. (In genus key.)
    Paraburenia Jeekel 1971: 41. (In genus catalogue.)
    Paraburenia Hoffman 1977: 430. (In genus list, as synonym of Rhinotus.)
    Paraburenia Hoffman 1980: 73. (In genus catalogue, as synonym of Rhinotus.)
    [Type species: Paraburenia insulana Verhoeff, 1939, by monotypy. (Mascarene Islands)]
  Paroconus
    Paroconus Chamberlin 1945: 27. (First description.)
    Paroconus Jeekel 1971: 41. (In genus catalogue.)
    Paraconus [sic] Hoffman 1977: 430. (In genus list, as synonym of Rhinotus.)
    Paroconus Hoffman 1980: 73. (In genus catalogue, as synonym of Rhinotus.)
    [Type species: Paroconus paurodesmus Chamberlin, 1945, by original designation. (Java and Krakatau Island).]
Type species. Siphonotus africanus Cook, 1896, by monotypy. [Sierra Leone]
Distribution. Qld, WA; other Regions.
Included species:
    Rhinotus michaelseni (Attems, 1911) [WA]
    Rhinotus mjoebergi Verhoeff, 1924 [Qld]
    and a small number of non-Australian species (Hoffman 1980: 73)
Note. 'The name Rhinotus was first proposed by Cook, 1896. A type species was designated as "R. africanus (Siphonotus africanus, Cook)". A diagnosis of the genus was not given, and a description of Siphonotus africanus Cook had not yet been published. The proposal of Rhinotus Cook, 1896, therefore, is not valid.
     The description of Siphonotus africanus, cited above, appeared X.1896, but in that paper the name Rhinotus is not mentioned.
     The only time that Cook mentioned Rhinotus again in connection with the specific name africanus was in the Brandtia paper, cited above. Unfortunately, the date of publication of Brandtia is unknown, and it is uncertain whether it was published before or after the description of S. africanus had appeared. Its date is fixed here preliminarily as 31.XII.1896. If it turns out that the cited page of Brandtia appeared before X.1896, i.e. before the appearance of the description of S. africanus, the name Rhinotus Cook is unavailable. In that case the authorship of Rhinotus would go to Pocock, 1906 (in: Gardiner (ed.), The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes 2: 1045).' (Jeekel 1971: 43)