camerunense 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 : 282

camerunense Verhoeff, 1904

Sphendononema camerunense Verhoeff, 1904

Type material.

Holotype, ♂, ZMB 3839 / 3839 a–i (Verhoeff slide nrs 2842-2850); “Misahöhe Kamerun" [Missahoe, Togo]; leg. Baumann.

Present name.

Junior synonym of Sphendononema rugosa (Newport, 1844); synonymized by Würmli (2005).

Remarks.

The collector was Ernst Baumann (1871-1895) who studied natural history before taking up a post at Missahoe in 1893 through the Colonial Department of the German Foreign Office. He collected zoological, botanical and ethnological material, but contracted malaria and died on his return to Germany. The type locality is a former German ‘Kolonialstation’ and now falls within the political boundaries of Togo. Note that slide number 2850 could not be found as of 2016.