Thereuopoda clunifera (Wood, 1862)

Material.

1 specimen; ZMB 750; “Japan”; leg. Hilgendorf. 2 specimens; ZMB 2128; “Japan”; leg. Hilgendorf. 3 specimens; ZMB 1457; “Japan”; leg. Hilgendorf. 1 specimen; ZMB 3844; “Formosa” [Taiwan]; leg. Haberer; (arrived in Berlin 10.IX.1904). 1 specimen; ZMB 3897; “Japan”; leg. Hilgendorf. Two Verhoeff slides (nrs. 2697-8, as Scutigera, 3007-29); Japan.

Remarks.

The collector Haberer could be the doctor and naturalist Karl Albert Haberer (1864-1941) who is noted as having been active in China and Japan around 1899. He collected a molar tooth in China that eventually led to the discovery of "Peking Man".