Ballophilus polypus Attems, 1907

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 : 30

31. Ballophilus polypus Attems , 190­7

Attems 1907: 93–94 (as Ballophilus polypus n.sp.)

Type locality and specimens. Fundort [locality]: Tjompea [Ciampea], Wald (11.III.04, gesiebt). Dimensions. Länge [length] 12 mm, 75 Beinpaare [leg pairs]. Type material. Holotype ( ZMH-A0000539 ). INDONESIA: West Java, Ciampea [ca. 6°33’S, 106°41’E]. Preservation. 1 jar: Label. Ballophilus polypus Att. Typus, Krpln C. 11.III.04, Tjompen Wald, Java, gesiebt

(Kraepelin handwriting). Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 61, No. 5. Holotype. Collection remarks. The specimen was collected by Karl Kraepelin, who sifted it from leaf litter in forest

(“ Wald ”) and from detrital ground (“ Detritus ”) during his voyage to India and Java in 1903–04. Current systematic position. Ballophilus polypus Attems, 1907 .