madagascariensis 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 : 284-285

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.12882

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scientific name

madagascariensis Verhoeff, 1905
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madagascariensis Verhoeff, 1905 View in CoL

Lassophora madagascariensis Verhoeff, 1905a

Type material.

Holotype, ♂, ZMB 3912 / 3912 a–b (Verhoeff slide nrs 2130-2131); “Zentral-Madagaskar”; leg. Hildebrandt.

Present name.

Junior synonym of Lassophora nossibei (de Saussure & Zehntner, 1902); synonymized by Würmli (1975b). Note that Giribet and Edgecombe (2013) res urrected the generic name Lassophora from synonymy with Scutigera .

Remarks.

The collector was the botanist and explorer Johann Maria Hildebrandt (1847-1881) who was active in Madagascar from 1880 until his death there from fever in 1881. A precise locality for the type material is not available.