Thereuonema erga Chamberlin, 1959

Thofern, Detlef, Dupérré, Nadine & Harms, Danilo, 2021, An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg, Zootaxa 4977 (1), pp. 1-103 : 82-83

141. Thereuonema erga Chamberlin, 1959

Chamberlin 1959: 24 (as Thereuonema erga n. sp.)

Type locality and specimens. Locality.—Himalaya, Molta. May 8, 1956, four specimens (No. 788), and May 15, 1956, one specimen (No. 401).

Dimensions. Length up to 36 mm.—Length of antennae, about 42 mm.

Type material. Syntypes 4 ( ZMH-A0000693 , ZMH-A0009418-9420 ). INDIA: Uttarakhand, Molta (Himalayas) [30°28’52’’N, 79°32’33’’E] .

Preservation. 1 Jar: Label 1. Molta 8.5.1956, Himalaya 2000 m (imprint: Deutsche Indien-Expedition 1955– 1957, Nr. 788 Eing. Nr. 1, 1956); Label 2. Thereuonema erga Chamberlin Syntypen (imprint: Zool. Museum Hamburg); Label 3. Ralph v. Chamberlin det. et publ. 1959.

Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 61, No. 5. Syntypes 5.

Taxonomic remarks. Würmli (1975) excluded T. erga from the revision of Thereuonema because it does not belong to this genus. The generic assignment is presently uncertain ( Bonato et al. 2016).

Collection remarks. All specimens were collected during the German Expedition to India 1955–58.

Current systematic position. Thereuonema erga Chamberlin, 1959 .

LOST OR DESTROYED TYPE MATERIAL

Material of 12 species or subspecies is either lost or was destroyed. Most specimens were lost to fire during an air raid with incendiary bombs in 1943. Most specimens were moved to underground tunnels in time but some could not be saved from destruction. Four holotypes from the Godeffroy collection were already missing before an inventory in 1938. Of these species, seven represent valid taxa and five are junior synonyms.

Order Geophilomorpha Pocock, 1896