An annotated catalogue of the scorpion types (Arachnida, Scorpiones) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Part I: Parvorder Iurida Soleglad & Fet, 2003
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Monod, Lionel
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Duperre, Nadine
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Harms, Danilo
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.3.37464
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.3.37464
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Cercophonius himalayensis
Cercophonius himalayensis
Lourenco
, 1996: 87-89
Current senior synonym.
Phoniocercus sanmartini
Cekalovic, 1968 [synonymyized by
Ojanguren-Affilastro et al. 2018
: 474, 477]
Holotype.
♂ (ZMH-A0001581), India, Himalaya, [Uttarakhand] Ukal, Pauri Garhwal, U.P., 308N-7850E [
30°09
'00"
N
,
78°50
'00"
E
], about 45 km from the town of Pauri [
30°09
'10"
N
,
78°46
'37"
E
] (2250 m alt.), 16.05.1958, F. Schmid leg. (ZMH, Eing. Nr. A40/96).
Remarks.
Ojanguren-Affilastro et al. (2018)
considered that the specimen was mislabelled (it was probably collected in Chile and not in India like it is stated on the label). They explained that the entomologist Fernand Schmid (1924-1998) collected in Uttar Pradesh (India) in 1958 (
Weaver and Nimmo 1999
) but was at the same time working with material collected in Chile by Luis Enrique
Pena
(
Schmid 1958
).
Pena
, a Chilean entomologist, was regularly supplying researchers, museums and collections around the world with arachnid and insect specimens from Chile (
Barriga-Tũnon
and
Ugarte-Pena
1995
). He probably collected the present specimen and sent it to the Zoologisches Museum Hamburg. It is plausible that a label of
Schmid's
field work in India was wrongly placed inside the vial of the scorpion collected by
Pena
.