Bothriogaster egyptiacus Attems, 1896

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 : 23-25

22. Bothriogaster egyptiacus Attems, 1896

Fig. 6A

Attems 1896: 25 (as Bothriogaster egyptiacus nov. sp.)

Type locality and specimens. Fundort [locality]: Cairo, medicinische Schule [medical school] .

Dimensions. Länge [length] 73 mm. Breite [width] 15 mm. Es sind 107 Beinpaare vorhanden [107 leg pairs present].

Type material. Holotype ( ZMH-A0000536 ). EGYPT: Cairo, Medical School ( Faculty of Medicine ) [ca. 30°03’N, 31°15’E].

Preservation. 1 jar: Label 1. No 31. 19.III.1888. Cairo, Mediz.-Schule; Label 2. Bothriogaster egyptiacus Att. Typus Stuhlmann C. d. 1896. Cairo 19.III.1888 .

Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 62, No. 6. Holotype.

Collection remarks. The specimen was collected by the German zoologist and African explorer Franz Stuhlmann (1863–1928).

Taxonomic remarks. Chilobase lists this species as a junior synonym of B. signata (Kessler, 1874) citing a forthcoming manuscript by Minelli that, to the best of our knowledge, has not been published. A more recent paper ( Bonato & Minelli 2014) establishes a number of junior synonyms for B. signata but egyptiacus is not one of these.

Current systematic position. Bothriogaster egyptiacus Attems, 1896 .

Figures

FIGURE 6. A. Bothriogaster egyptiacus (Attems, 1896). Syntype (ZMH-A0000536). B. Mesocanthus latisternus Attems, 1934. Syntype ♀ (ZMH-A0000706). Scale bars: 1.0mm.