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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138.
Scutigera birmanica
Pocock, 1891
Pocock 1891: 403–404
(as
Scutigera birmanica
sp. n.
)
Type
locality and specimens.
Sig. L. Fea
obtained
three adult
specimens at
Palon
(
Pegu
) [
Bago
]
.
Dimensions.
Length up to
40 mm
.
Type material.
Syntype
(
ZMH-A0000683
)
.
MYANMAR
:
Bago Region
,
Bago
(“
Palon
[
Pegu
]
”) [ca.
17°19’N
,
96°27’E
]
.
Preservation.
1 jar: Label.
Scutigera birmanica
Poc.
ex. typ., Palon (backside with the imprint: Viaggio in
Birmania
di L. FEA, 1885–89.).
Old type catalogue.
Weidner (1960)
, p. 61, No. 2.
Paratype
1.
Collection remarks.
The
specimens were collected during
Leonardo Fea’s
expedition to Birma [today
Myanmar
] 1885–89 (“
Viaggio
in Birmania di L. FEA, 1885–89
”).
Two
additional
syntypes
(adult & subadult
♂
, Birma- nia, Bhamo) are present at the
MNHN
and more specimens of the original series are at the
ZMUC
and perhaps the
BMNH
(
Stoev & Geoffroy 2004: 7–8
)
.
Current systematic position.
Junior synonym of
Thereuopoda longicornis
(Fabricius, 1793)
according to
Würmli (1979: 46)
.