Polygonarea repanda conifera Attems, 1911

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 : 20

15. Polygonarea repanda conifera Attems, 1911

Attems 1911a: 165, fig. 19 (as Polygonarea repanda conifera n. subsp.)

Type locality and specimens. Fundnotizen [locality notes]: Station 77, Yalgoo; Station 84, Dongara (as Dongarra); Koll. Dr. Cunningham, Mundijong; Station 135, Brunswick; Station 144, Bridgetown; Station 152, Gooseberry Hill; Station 155, York; Station 158, Broome Hill; Station 160, Cranbrook.

Dimensions. 61–73 Beinpaare [leg pairs] (♂ 61–71, ♀ 63–73), bis 48 mm lang [length up to 48 mm].

Type material. Syntypes 4. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: ( ZMH-A0000572 ), Dongarra (station 84) [ca. 29°14’S, 114°55’E]; ( ZMH-A0006400 ), York (station 155) [ca. 31°53’S, 116°46’E]; ( ZMH-A0006401 ), Mundi- jong [ca. 32°17’S, 115°59’E]; ( ZMH-A0006402 ), Cranbrook (station 160) [ca. 34°30’S, 117°55’E] .

Preservation. 1 jar and 4 vials. Jar: Label 1. Poligonarea repanda conifera Att. Typen., coll. Michaelsen 1905, W.Austral; Label 2. N.B. Some of these specimens do not agree with the original and subsequent description.— R.C. Crabill— 4.VIII.1964 (Crabill handwriting). Vial 1 ( ZMH-A 0006400): Label 1. Hambg.S.W.Austral.Exp. 1905, 155 York 11.VIII. (imprint); Label 2. Polygonarea repanda conifera Att. Vial 2 ( ZMH-A 0000572): Label 1. Hambg. S.W.Austral.Exp. 1905, 84 Dongarra, Dünenbusch, 17. VII. (imprint). Vial 3 ( ZMH-A 0006401): Label 1. Mundijong, W.A. Mus. Hamburg. Dr. Cunningham B.H. Woodward d. 28.XII.05; Label 2. Polygonarea repanda conifera n. sp. n. subsp., b. Attems determ. Vial 4 ( ZMH-A 0006402): Label. Hambg.S.W.Austral.Exp. 1905, 160 Cranbrook 23.VIII.

Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 63, No. 31. Syntypes (number not specified).

Type status. Attems (1911a) did not specify the number of specimens in his description and all specimens of the type series are syntypes.

Additional type material. Type material (syntypes) including microscope slides, from Bridgetown (no. 7012); Broome Hill (no. 7013, 7015) and Dongara (no. 7014) are held at the NHMW; see Ilie et al. (2009: 20) for details. There are syntypes from Broomhill, Brunswick and Yalgoo at the ZMB (no. 5166, 5166a–c) .

Collection remarks and note. The specimens were collected by Wilhelm Michaelsen during his expedition to Western Australia 1905. Crabill (1964) noted that some specimens do not agree with the original description. Considering the pronounced regional endemism in this region (e.g. Rix et al. 2015; Harms et al. 2019), the present syntypes almost certainly belong to multiple species.

Current systematic position. Ribautia conifera (Attems, 1911) . Assigned to the genus Ribautia Brölemann, 1909 by Ribaut (1923: 71) and elevated to species level.