Pleurogeophilus vetustus Silvestri, 1907

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 : 18

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Pleurogeophilus vetustus Silvestri
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13. Pleurogeophilus vetustus Silvestri View in CoL , 190­7

Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5

Silvestri 1907: 249–250, figs. 56–61 (as Pleurogeophilus vetustus sp. n.)

Type locality and specimens. Habitat: Phaleron, Piraeus, Prof. K. Kraepelin leg.

Dimensions. Pedum paria [leg pairs] ♀ 91. Long. corp. [length] mm 84, lat. 1,7 [width 1.7 mm].

Type material. Holotype ♀ ( ZMH-A0000568 ). GREECE: Piraeus , Palaio Faliro District [Old Phalerum] [37°56’N, 23°42’E]. GoogleMaps

Preservation. 1 jar: Label 1. Phaleron of Piraeus I. [off] W. Luxdorf leg. 1903. ded. 21.VII.1903; Label 2. Pleurogeophilus vetustus Silv. Typus W. Luxdorf l. 21.VII.1903 Phaleron of Athen (Kraepelin handwriting) ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ); Label 3. Studied VI.7–8.61 R. Crabill — Hamburg (Crabill handwriting) .

Type status. Only one specimen was used for the description and the present specimen is the holotype.

Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 63, No. 29. Holotype ♀.

Collection remarks. The type locality “Phaleron” refers to the ancient harbour of Athens. The specimen was collected by Mr. W. Luxdorf (contra the original description of Silvestri).

Current systematic position. Pleurogeophilus vetustus Silvestri, 1907 .

Silvestri, F. (1907) Neue und wenig bekannte Myriopoden des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. I. Teil. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg, 24, 229 - 257.

Weidner, H. (1960) Die Entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg. III. Teil Chilopoda und Progoneata. Mitteilungen des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums Hamburg, 58, 57 - 104.

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FIGURE 3. Historic images: A. Illustration of the private Museum Godeffroy at the Alter Wandrahm 26 (now Speicherstadt) in Hamburg and example of the Godeffroy sales catalogues. Many specimens from the Museum Godeffroy were integrated into the ZMH collections after this museum closed in 1885 and the collections were auctioned. Duplicate specimens were offered for sale in nine sales catalogues (issued between 1864 and 1881) and these catalogues provide the unique Godeffroy number (left column) and critical data on collection localities (third column) but also the sales price. B. Label examples of Pleurogeophilus vetustus (ZMH-A0000568), first label written by K. Kraepelin. C. Label examples of Cormocephalus amphieurys (ZMH- A0000583), first label written by K. Kraepelin. D. Label examples of Scolopendra laeta (ZMH-A0000629), first label written by K. Kraepelin.

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FIGURE 5. Pleurogeophilus vetustus Silvestri, 1907. Syntype ♀ (ZMH-A0000568). Scale bar: 1.0mm.

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Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile