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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Hormurus papuanus
Fig. 31
Hormurus papuanus
Kraepelin, 1914d: 333 [
Hormurus
]
Current combination.
Hormurus papuanus
Kraepelin, 1914
Lectotype.
(
Fig. 31
A-C
) ♂, [Papua New Guinea], SW
Kueste
New Pommern [SW coast of New Britain], Liebliche Inseln [Arawe Islands] [
6°06
'07"
S
,
148°59
'53"
E
], 11-12.12.1908, 05.01.1909, 26-31.01.1909, (2 T. under Steinen [2 specimens under rocks], 2 T. in moderndem Holz [two specimens in decaying logs]), Georg Duncker leg. (S40), Hamburg
Suedsee
Expedition.
Paralectotype.
1 ♂, 1 ♀ (
Fig. 31
D-F
), 5 ♀, 4 subadult ♂, 2 subadult ♀, 7 juveniles, same data as lectotype; 1 ♂, [Papua New Guinea], New Pommern [New Britain],
Moere
Hafen [Kandrian] [
6°11
'24"
S
,
149°32
'51"
E
], Unterlauf des Wasserfall-Fl. [downstream of waterfall], 13-14.XII.1908, 20-24.II.1909, Georg Duncker leg. (334), Hamburg
Suedsee-Expedition
.
Remarks.
Kraepelin mentioned in the original description 23 specimens from Neu Pommern and Neu Guinea. Among this material, two specimens from Finschafen (Papua New Guinea mainland) belong to a different undescribed species and are thus not considered type specimens of
H. papuanus
. This new species will be described in a forthcoming paper about the genus
Hormurus
in Papua New Guinea (Monod et al. in prep). An additional specimen from Aru Islands was also mentioned in the original description but it is not considered here as a type. The type locality of species
H. papuanus
is thus restricted to the specimens collected on the SW coast of New Britain (Arawe Islands and Kandrian village).
Giltay (1931
: 10) considered
H. papuanus
as a subspecies of
H. caudicula
, while L. E.
Koch (1977
: 173) regarded it as a junior synonym of
Liocheles karschii
(Keyserling, 1885).
Monod (2000
: 113) revalidated the species and designated lectotype and paralectotypes from this series. A complete redescription will be provided in the publication mentionned above (Monod et al. in prep).
Remarks on collector.
(Paul) Georg (Egmont) Duncker (1870-1953) was a German zoologist and ichthyologist. He was employed by the Hamburg Zoological Museum in 1907 and became curator/professor in 1928. He was a member of the Hamburg
Suedsee-Expedition
(1908-1910) in the Bismarck Archipelago and collected on behalf of the ZMH (
Thilenius 1914
).
Figure 31.
Hormurus papuanus
Kraepelin, 1914, male lectotype (
A-C
), female paralectotype (
D-F
):
A, D
dorsal aspect of habitus
B, E
ventral aspect of habitus
C, F
retrolateral aspect of chela illustrating dentate margins of fingers. Scale bars: 10 mm (
A-B
,
D-E
), 2 mm (
C, F
).