An annotated catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the collection of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha)
Author
Stoev, Pavel
Author
Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques
text
Zootaxa
2004
635
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.158015
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158015
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Thereuonema microstoma
(Meinert, 1886)
New Combination
!
Scutigera microstoma
Meinert, 1886b
: 173
.
Thereuonema syriaca
Verhoeff, 1905b
: 88
–90
New Synonymy!
Type
locality:
a place
70 miles
from Amballa and Koolloo,
India
.
Lectotype
:
male in
ZMUC
(present designation);
Paralectotypes
:
female in
ZMUC
; several specimens of different sex and age in
MCZ
.
Material examined:
The
MNHN
houses specimens identified by H.W. Brolemann, H. Ribaut and C. Attems from the following localities:
SYRIA
: Doummar; Koutaïfé; Ataïbe, E of Damas; AïnFidjé, Djebel Kasioun;
ERITREA
: Saganeiti (sub
Scutigera aethiopica
Silvestri
); as well as the
holotype
(adult male) of
Thereuonema tropicalis
Ribaut, 1907
from Baltchi,
Ethiopia
. The latter was recognised as a junior synonym of
Thereuonema syriaca
by
Würmli (1975)
.
General distribution:
Asia
:
India
(East).
Iran
.
Iraq
.
Israel
.
Jordan
.
Lebanon
.
Pakistan
.
Palestine
.
Saudi Arabia
.
Syria
.
Turkey
(East
Turkey
, Kurdistan region).
Yemen
.
Africa
:
Egypt
.
Eritrea
.
Ethiopia
.
Libya
.
Sudan
.
Remarks:
Meinert (1886b)
described
Scutigera microstoma
from two localities – Amballa and Koolloo (=? Kulu) in NW
India
, both lying close to the border with
Pakistan
. Recently,
Stoev (2002)
noted that this species is identical to
Thereuonema syriaca
Ve
rhoeff, 1905, the latter being widespread from the Near East and eastern Africa to
Pakistan
and NE
India
(
Würmli, 1975
;
Stoev, 2002
). We use this opportunity to elucidate the taxonomic status of
microstoma
and to show that it is a valid species of
Thereuonema
, conspecific with Verhoeff’s
T
.
syriaca
. The
syntypes
from the collections of the ZMUC and the MCZ were studied (courtesy to Prof. H. Enghoff and Mrs. Laura Leibensperger) and compared with non
type
material of
syriaca
from
Turkey
,
Yemen
,
Iran
and
Egypt
. In spite of the different coloration in the
type
material, undoubtedly resulting from long preservation in alcohol, we could not find any further differences in the setal ornamentation, shape of terga, second maxillae and female gonopods. Hence, the following new combination and synonymy:
Thereuonema microstoma
(Meinert, 1886)
New Combination
=
Thereuonema syriaca
Verhoeff, 1905
New Synonym
. This taxonomic alteration is in agreement with the article 23.1. of the International Code of
Zoological Nomenclature (1999)
. The name
T. syriaca
has been cited only in 14 scientific papers published in the period
1905–2003
. We cannot predict how long this name will be in use, as there is at least one older candidate to replace it, namely
Cermatia rubrilineata
Newport, 1844
(not
rubrolineata
after
Newport (1845)
and all subsequent authors), a possibility suggested by
Haase (1887)
.