turkestana 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 : 287

turkestana Verhoeff, 1905

Type material.

Holotype, ♀, ZMB 87 / 87 a–c (Verhoeff slide nrs 1615, 2982-2983); “Buchara” [Bukhara, Uzbekistan]; leg. Eversmann.

Present name.

Thereuonema turkestana Verhoeff, 1905.

Remarks.

The collector was Eduard Friedrich Eversmann (1794-1860) who visited Bukhara in 1820 and became a professor of natural history at the University of Kazan. Eversmann sent specimens to Heinrich Lichtenstein, the then director of the Berlin Museum which had recently been founded (in 1810). Thus ZMB 87, collected only ten years later, is one of the oldest centipedes in the collection. The non-slide material is currently held in the dry collection.