Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna, 1881

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 : 45

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scientific name	Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna, 1881
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59. Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna, 1881 View in CoL

Cavanna 1881: 169–178 (as Plutonium zwierleini )

Type locality and specimens. Hab[itat]. Sicilian? [Sicily, Italy] Un. spec. a Dom. Eq. Zwierlein anno 1878 prope Taorminam captum et in Mus. Florent servatum [ One specimen collected by Zwierlein 1878 near Taormina and kept in the Museum Florence] .

Dimensions. Long. max. fronte marg. pos. segm. ult. 100 mm [maximum length from the front edge to the ultimate segment 100 mm]. Lat. max. 10 mm [maximum width 10 mm].

Type material. Neotype ( ZMH-A0000672 ). ITALY: Sicily, Palermo [ca. 38°06’N, 13°21’E]. GoogleMaps

Preservation. 1 jar: Label 1. Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna, G.H. Martens d. 16. V.1898, Palermo Sizilien; Label 2. Plutonium zwierleinii Cavanna (imprint: Zool. Museum Hamburg). Label 3; Scolopendromorpha : Cryptodiae: Plutoniuminae Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna NEOTYPE Sig. Shelley, 1996 (typewriting).

Old type catalogue. Not listed .

Type status. Shelley (1997: 103) designated the neotype. The ZMH file card reads: “Verliehen [loan] 1971 an [to] R. E. Crabill, 1989 an [to] R.M., Label: Scolopendromorpha : Cryptopidae : Plutoniuminae Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna NEOTYPE Sig. Shelley, 1996.”

Collection remarks. This type was donated by the German ornithologist Gustav Heinrich Martens (1842– 1912).

Current systematic position. Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna, 1881 .