An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg
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Thofern, Detlef
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Author
Dupérré, Nadine
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uperre@uni-hamburg.de
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Harms, Danilo
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-05-27
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146.
Mecistocephalus tahitiensis porosus
Haase, 1887
Haase 1887: 102
(as Var.
Mec. porosus
n. v.
)
Type
locality and specimens.
Ein Stück
aus
Viti
Levu
[One specimen from
Viti
Levu]
.
Dimensions.
41 mm
lang, vorn 1.8, in der Mitte 2, und hinten
0.8 mm
breit [
41 mm
long, front 1.8, middle 2, and rear end
0.8 mm
].
Type material.
Holotype
.
FIJI
:
Viti Levu Group
(archipelago),
Viti Levu
[ca.
17°48’S
,
178°0’E
].
Old type catalogue.
Weidner (1960)
, p. 63, No. 24,
Holotype
.
Additional remarks.
This specimen was part of the
Godeffroy
collection (
Godeffroy
Nr. 6493) and already missing in 1938 (
Weidner 1960
).
Haase (1887)
mentiones that he had several specimens from Gayndah and Rockhampton from the Museum Hamburg and additional specimens from the Museums Dresden and Vienna from Gayndah (presumably sent or sold by the Museum
Godeffroy
). However, only
one specimen
had white spots with small setae which he described as typical for his variety “
porosus
”. Also note that the
type
locality of
M. tahitiensis
is from eastern Tahiti and not
Viti
Levu.
Current systematic position.
Mecistocephalus tahitiensis
Wood, 1862
; see Chamberlin (1953: 80).