maculata Verhoeff, 1905

Dunlop, Jason A., Friederichs, Anja & Langermann, Jasmin, 2017, A catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2), pp. 281-295 : 284

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.12882

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:76CB39EE-6E92-4B79-BEA2-920982308F2A

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/64095352-21ED-5D47-4370-78A087F34EF0

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scientific name

maculata Verhoeff, 1905
status

 

maculata Verhoeff, 1905 View in CoL

Pselliophora maculata Verhoeff, 1905a

Type material.

Holotype, ZMB 3894 / 3894 a–d (Verhoeff slide nrs 2584-2587); “Uluguru” [Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania]; leg. Götze.

Present name.

Junior synonym of Sphendononema rugosa (Newport, 1844); synonymized by Würmli (2005).

Remarks.

The collector could be the explorer and later governor of German East Africa [Tanzania], Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen (1866-1910). The expedition which led to this material was probably that undertaken from 1893-1894.