A catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin
Author
Dunlop, Jason A.
Author
Friederichs, Anja
Author
Langermann, Jasmin
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Zoosystematics and Evolution
2017
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.12882
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.12882
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aegyptica Verhoeff, 1905
Thereuonema syriaca var. aegyptica
Verhoeff, 1905a
Type material.
Paratypes, 1♂, 1♀, ZMB 3892 / 3892
a-h
(Verhoeff slide nrs 1608, 2958-2964);
"Aegypten"
[Egypt]; leg. Hemprich & Ehrenberg.
Present name.
Junior synonym of
Thereuonema microstoma
(Meinert, 1886); synonymized by
Wuermli
(1975a)
.
Remarks.
The collectors were the famous explorers Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich (1796-1825) and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876), who were active in the Middle East from 1820 until
Hemprich's
death in 1825. Note that the alcohol type material of this subspecies is currently stored in the '
syriaca
' jar.