A catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin
Author
Dunlop, Jason A.
Author
Friederichs, Anja
Author
Langermann, Jasmin
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Zoosystematics and Evolution
2017
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2
281
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.12882
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.12882
1860-0743-2-281
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Thereuopoda longicornis (Fabricius, 1793)
Material.
2 specimens (as
S. nobilis
(Templeton, 1843)); ZMB 93;
"Ceylon"
[Sri Lanka]; leg. Nietner. 3 specimens; ZMB 219; "Rambodde, Ceylon" [Sri Lanka]; leg. 1 specimen (as
Scutigera templetoni
Humbert, 1865); ZMB 5116;
"Ceylon"
[Sri Lanka] Escherich, 12.VIII.1911. 1 dry specimen; unnumbered; locality, collector and date not recorded (as
T. decipiens
Verhoeff, 1905). 1 specimen; ZMB 13180; "Swela, Lombok" [Indonesia]; leg.
Sunda-Expedition
Rensch; 1927. 1 specimen; ZMB 13757; "Central Sumatra" [Indonesia]; leg. Moszkowski, 1907; det. G. Edgecombe.
Remarks.
ZMB 5116 was discovered in a termite mound belonging to the species
Odontotermes redemanni
(Wasmann): "Im
Huegel
von
Termes redemanni
". The collector was the forester and entomologist Karl Escherich (1871-1951) who authored a work about the termites and ants of Sri Lanka. The collector of 13180 was Bernhard Rensch (1900-1990) who worked in the Berlin Museum from 1925-1937 and took part in the 1927 Sunda Expedition. The collector of 13757 was Max Moszkowski, a physician who travelled in Sri Lanka and Sumatra in 1907 and later in New Guinea.