Ballonema gracilipes Verhoeff, 1904

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 : 288-289

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:76CB39EE-6E92-4B79-BEA2-920982308F2A

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4DC3BBBE-71E6-37D1-118F-2DD2C93E8DED

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scientific name

Ballonema gracilipes Verhoeff, 1904
status

 

Ballonema gracilipes Verhoeff, 1904 View in CoL

Material.

1 specimen, ZMB 5382 "Sattelberg bei Finschhafen" [Sattelberg near Finschhafen, Morobe Province Papua New Guinea]; leg. Neuhauß, XII.1908. 1 specimen, ZMB 5383 "Neu Guinea, Sepik 1570 m lang N.68" [Sepik River, Papua New Guinea]; leg. Schultze, XI.1910.

Remarks.

The collector of ZMB 5382 was Richard Neuhauss (1855-1915) a medical doctor and anthropologist who was active in New Guinea from 1908-1910. The collector of ZMB 5383 was Leonhard Schultze (1872-1955) a zoologist and anthropologist who took part in a Dutch–German expedition to New Guinea in 1910. Note that the identity of this material was confirmed in the literature by Butler et al. (2010: 548).