Shear William A, Shelley Rowland M
Professor Emeritus, Biology Department, Hampden-Sydney College. Hampden-Sydney VA 23943; current address 1950 Price Drive, Farmville VA 23901..
Zootaxa. 2019 Feb 20;4559(2):384-390. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.2.11.
The identity of Polyesmus cavicola Packard, 1877, described from a cave in Utah, is clarified through examination of a female lectotype and a newly collected adult male. The species is placed in the family Macrosternodesmidae and is designated as the type species of Packardesmus, n. gen.