Theuronema turkestana Verhoeff, 1905

Dunlop, Jason A., Friederichs, Anja & Langermann, Jasmin, 2017, A catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2), pp. 281-295 : 290

Theuronema turkestana Verhoeff, 1905

Material.

4 specimens. Unnumbered. "Alexandrowskajgebirge, Kappak-District, Turkestan" [Alexandrowskaja Mountains]; leg H. Rolle V.[19]06.

Remarks.

We could not find a precise modern equivalent for this locality, but older atlases indicate an “Alexandergb.” mountain range which corresponds to the Kyrgyz Ala-Too mountains east of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. There is also a town of “Alexandrowskaya” on older maps, probably close to the modern Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan), but this is in lowlands nearer the Aral Sea.