Eurytion kraepelini Silvestri

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 : 13

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scientific name	Eurytion kraepelini Silvestri
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3. Eurytion kraepelini Silvestri , 1907

Silvestri 1907: 254–256, figs. 75–80 (as Eurytion kraepelini sp. n.)

Type locality and specimens. Habitat: Port Elizabeth, Dr. H. Brauns leg.

Dimensions. Pedum paria [leg pairs] ♀ 65, ♂ 61–63.

Type material. Syntypes 3♂, 1♀ ( ZMH-A0000570 , ZMH-A0006381–6383 ). SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape Province, Port Elizabeth [33°57’29’’S, 25°36’00’’E] GoogleMaps .

Preservation. 1 jar: Label 1. Port Elizabeth, Dr. med. H. Brauns l. d. 15.XII 1898; Label 2. Eurytion Kraepelini Silv. Co-Typus. Dr. Brauns d. 15.XII.98 Port Elizabeth; Label 3. SYNTYPES Eurytion (= Polygonarea ) kraepelini Silvestri S. Africa: Port Elizabeth; Label 4. mouthparts probably removed by Silvestri.—Crabill: VII. 1964 (Crabill handwriting).

Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 62, No. 10. Syntypes 3.

Type status. Silvestri (1907) did not specify the number of specimens in his original description and all are syntypes.

Curatorial remarks. 3 microscope slides are held at the ZMH (note on file card: “3 Präp., Syntypen, ohne Fundort, Crabill rev. et präp.”). The ZMH holds 4 syntypes, contra Weidner (1960) .

Collection remarks. The specimens were collected by the German medical doctor and entomologist Hans Brauns (1857–1929).

Current systematic position. Polygonarea kraepelini ( Silvestri, 1907) ; transferred to this genus by Attems (1909: 25).

References

Attems, C. G. (1909) Myriapoden. In: Schultze, L. (Ed.), Zoologische und Arthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im Westlichen und Zentralen Sudafrika, ausgefuhrt in den Jahren 1903 - 1905. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 14, 1 - 52.

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.