Perustigmus alticolus Verhoeff, 1941

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 : 85

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scientific name	Perustigmus alticolus Verhoeff, 1941
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150. Perustigmus alticolus Verhoeff, 1941

Verhoeff 1941: 64 (as P. alticolus n. sp.)

Type locality and specimens. Südperu [Southern Peru], Rio Sondondo, 2370 m, 18.4.1936 ; Sivia , 500 m , in Gartenerde [in garden soils]. Corrected in the reprint edition (Verhoeff, 1951) to Querobamba, 3560 m .

Dimensions. 45 mm Länge [length].

Type material. Syntypes 2. PERU: Ayacucho Region, Rió Sondono [ca. 13°56’S, 73°52’W] GoogleMaps .

Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 70, No, 69. Holotype.

Collection remarks. The specimens were collected during the Hamburger Südperu-Expedition in 1936. They are from Río Sondondo in Ayacucho, Perú.

Additional remarks. The specimen was destroyed by fire in World War II ( Weidner 1960).

Current systematic position. Junior synonym of Cormocephalus andinus ( Kraus, 1957) . Also note that the genus name Perustigmus is unavailable because it was proposed without designating a type species. Shelley & Chagas (2005: 179) placed it in the synonymy of Cormocephalus .

References

Kraus, O. (1957) Myriapoden aus Peru, VI: Chilopoden. Senckenbergiana biologica, 38, 359 - 404.

Shelley, R. M. & Chagas Jr, A. (2005) Perustigmus and Perustigminae Verhoeff, 1941, invalid genus- and family-group names in the centipede family Scolopendridae (Scolopendromorpha). Entomological News, 115, 178 - 179.

Verhoeff, K. W. (1941). Chilopoden und Diplopoden. In: Titschack, E. (Ed.), Beitrage zur Fauna Perus, Band I, C. Behre, Hamburg, pp. 5 - 72.

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.