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

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] .

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).