massaica 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 : 285

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scientific name	massaica Verhoeff, 1905
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Pselliophora massaica Verhoeff, 1905a

Type material.

Holotype, ZMB 2528 / 2528 a–c (Verhoeff slide nrs 2599-2601); "D. O. Afrika, Massaisteppe" [Tanzania]; leg. Schillings.

Present name.

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

Remarks.

The collector was Carl Georg Schillings (1865-1921), a big game hunter and explorer who collected in Tanzania (as German East Africa) for the Berlin Museum during several trips made between 1896 and 1903.