An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg
Author
Thofern, Detlef
hofern@web.de
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
0000-0003-2195-878X
uperre@uni-hamburg.de
Author
Harms, Danilo
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-05-27
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140.
Scutigera simplex
Haase, 1887
Haase 1887: 26
, plate I, fig. 29 (as
Scutigera simplex
n. sp.
)
Type
locality and specimens.
Patria
[homeland]:
Australia
.
1 Weibchen
aus
Sidney
[
1♀
from Sydney], dem Ham- burger
Museum
gehörig [belonging to the Hamburg Museum] (No. 14455), von
25 mm
Länge
[length]
.
Dimensions.
Long. corp. [body length]
25 mm
.
Type material.
Holotype
♀
(
ZMH-A0000691
).
AUSTRALIA
:
New South Wales
,
Sydney
[ca.
33°51’S
,
151°12’E
].
Preservation.
1 jar: Label 1.
Scutigera simplex
Haase
Typus
! MG 14455 Sidney; Label 2.
Scut
. [
foroeps
Rat.] (pencil).
Old type catalogue.
Weidner (1960)
, p. 61, No. 4.
Holotype
♀
.
Taxonomic remarks.
The taxonomic status of
Scutigera simplex
is still uncertain (
Bonato
et al.
2016
).
Pocock (1901)
tentatively proposed it to be a synonym of
Scutigera maculata
(Newport, 1844)
(now
Allothereua maculata
(Newport, 1844)
. Note that Pocock gave the
type
locality as Adelaide which is a lapsus.
Collection remarks.
The specimen belonged to the private Museum
Godeffroy
in
Hamburg
. No collector is given on the labels but the specimen was almost certainly collected by Eduard Dämel (1822–1900) who sampled extensively in the Sydney region from 1852 to 1858.
Current systematic position.
Junior synonym of
Allothereua maculata
(Newport, 1844)
according to
Pocock (1901: 452)
.