Disk Utility shows partition NOT appearing through diskutil list

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HighSierra, 500 GB SSD

Disk Utility shows two partitions that does not appear through diskutil list.
First, the ouput from diskutil list:

sh-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         500.1 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.1 GB   disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume APPLESSD                23.1 GB    disk2s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 19.4 MB    disk2s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.8 MB   disk2s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk2s4

Now, a screenshot from Disk Utility application with 2 partitions not listed previously:
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This last one is OK :
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How can I solve this?

Here is the output from gpt:

sh-3.2# gpt -r show /dev/disk0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6         
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  976695384      2  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  977105024          3         
  977105027         32         Sec GPT table
  977105059          1         Sec GPT header

Best Answer

You are confusing APFS containers, APFS volumes and partitions.

You have a 500GB drive which has one APFS container containing a number of volumes. Of those volumes Preboot, Recovery and VM are used by the system and hidden in Disk Utility. The volume APPLESSD contains a number of partitions, one of which is of zero size.

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