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<div><p>Abacion lactarium (Say, 1821)</p> <p>Julus lactarius Say, 1821, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 2: 104. Type material, from an unspecified locality, not known to be extant. Chamberlin & Hoffman (1958: 109) suggested Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as restricted type locality, but without designating a neotype.</p> <p>Cambala lactarius: Gray, 1832, In: Griffith and Pidgeon, The class Insecta arranged by Baron Cuvier, pl. 135, fig. 2. Gervais, 1837, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., 7: 48. Gervais, 1847, Hist. Nat. Ins. Apt., 4: 134.</p> <p>Spirostrephon lactarius: Brandt, 1840, Rec. Mém. relat. ord. Ins. Myriapodes: 90. Wood, 1865, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., 13: 192. Ryder, 1881, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. Wash., 3: 526. Loomis, 1937, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. Wash., 84 (3006): 108, figs 16, l-m. Chamberlin, 1943, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 56: 145. Causey, 1953, Am. Midl. Nat., 50: 155.</p> <p>Cambala lactaria: Newport, 1844, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, 13: 266.</p> <p>Platops lineata Newport, 1844, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, 13: 267. HT (BMNH) from North America. Synonymy proposed by Pocock (1893).</p> <p>Lysiopetalum lineatum: Gervais, 1847, Hist. Nat. Ins. Apt., 4: 133.</p> <p>Lysiopetalum lactarium: McNeill, 1888, Bull. Brookville Soc. Nat. Hist., 3: 9. Pocock, 1893, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 11: 248. Chamberlin, 1931, Entomol. News, 42 (4): 98.</p> <p>Callipus lactarius: Williams & Hefner, 1928, Ohio State Univ. Bull., 33 (7): 118–119, fig. 15.</p> <p>Spirostrephon lactarium: Loomis, 1944, Psyche, 51 (3–4): 168 (in part).</p> <p>Abacion lactarium: Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1958, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 212: 109. Shelley, 1984, Can. J. Zool., 62: 983, figs 4–6. Hoffman, 1999, Checklist Millip. North & Middle Am.: 197.</p> <p>Range: New Jersey to central Florida, west and north to Ohio and Indiana, with an apparent hiatus in the range between</p> <p>Virginia and northern Florida. Although the species is statewide in Florida, there are no Coastal Plain records for the</p> <p>northern population (cf. Hoffman 1999).</p></div>