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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Dupérré, Nadine
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Harms, Danilo
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Zootaxa
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4.
Geophilus metopias
Attems
, 1903
Attems 1903b: 246–247
, plate 14, fig. 41; plate. 15, figs. 45–47 (as
Geophilus (Eurytion) metopias
n. sp.
); see also
Attems 1903a: 80
Type
locality and specimens.
Fundort [locality]: Corral,
Chile
(
Dr. Michaelsen
und
Dr. Plate
coll.)
.
Dimensions.
Länge [length]
35 mm
, Breite 1,8 mm [width
1.8 mm
], 49 Beinpaare [leg pairs] (
2♀
).
Type material.
Syntype
♀
(
ZMH-A0000558
).
CHILE
:
Valdivia Province
,
Corral
[ca.
39°52’S
,
73°26’W
]
.
Preservation.
1 jar: Label 1. 48. Corral. Coll. Michaelsen. 31.III.93; Label 2.
Geophilus metopias
Att.
Typus
Coll. Michaelsen, 31.III.93, Corral.
Chile
.
Old type catalogue.
Weidner (1960)
, p. 62, No. 18.
Holotype
♀
.
Curatorial remarks.
1 microscope slide is held at the
ZMH
(notes on file card: “1 Präp.,
Chile
,
Coronnel
,
15.1.1920
,
R
.
Paessler
,
Crabill
det. et rev. et präp.”)
.
Other type material.
There is
1♀
defective, 1 slide (head, remounted from Attems’ original slide by Crabill) (
syntype
) from
Chile
, “Corral” (coll. W. Michaelsen) held at the
NHMW
(no. 7023).
Ilie
et al.
(2009: 44)
noted: ”
1♀
syntype
from Corall collected by Plate is stored at the
ZMB
(
Moritz & Fischer 1979: 346
) and
1♀
indicated as
holotype
(sic!) labelled only ‘
Chile
, Corrall’ at the
ZMH
(
Weidner 1960: 62
)”. There is also a
syntype
from Corral at the
ZMB
(no. 2917). The
ZMH
specimen is a
syntype
.
Collection remarks.
The specimen was collected by Wilhelm Michaelsen during his expedition to the southern tip of South America 1892–93.
Current systematic position.
Plateurytion
metopias
(Attems, 1903)
; transferred to this genus by
Bonato
et al.
(2007: 6)
.