Galeodes elegans, Harms & Dupérré, 2018

Harms, Danilo & Dupérré, Nadine, 2018, An annotated type catalogue of the camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg, Zootaxa 4375 (1), pp. 1-58 : 36

Galeodes elegans Roewer 1934

Roewer 1934: 531 (as Galeodes elegans nov. spec.)

Type locality and specimens. ♂, ♀— Makedonien ( Tal des Wardar und der Struma)—(vidi 3 ♂, 3♀, Typus) .

Dimensions. ♂ Körperlänge 27 mm; Makedonien . ♀ Korperlänge 27 mm; Makedonien

Oldest label. Macedonien, Wardartal 1916, Fr. Ahlborn leg., ded. 22.xi.1923 (Unknown handwriting).

Additional label vial 1. Galeodes elegans n. sp. 1♂, 1♀ (Typis) (♂ [illeg.]) Roewer det. 1932.— No. 9226 (Roewer handwriting).

Additional label vial 2. Galeodes elegans n. sp. 1♂ Cotypis, Roewer det. 1932.— No. 9228 ( Roewer handwriting).

Additional label vial 3. Galeodes elegans n. sp. 1♀ — Cotypus, Roewer rv. 1932.— No. 9227 ( Roewer handwriting).

Type material. Paralectotypes 1♂, 1♀ (ZMH-A0000197); syntype 1♂ (ZMH-A0000199); syntype 1♀ (ZMH- A 0000194).

Taxonomic remarks. There are two males in the SMF collection (catalog no. 6923, 9902522) and one of these is a microscope slide. Zilch (1946: 144) mentions that the male from Wardartal in Makedonien (catalog no. 9902522) is the lectotype. The ZMH specimens are part of the series and paralectotypes, following designation of the lectotype by Zilch (1946).

Collection remarks. The type locality is the area of the Vardar and Struma Rivers in Macedonia . The specimen was collected by German zoologist and physicist Friedrich Ahlborn (1858–1937) who lived in Hamburg and was affiliated with the ZMH for some time.

Current systematic position. Galeodidae , Galeodes elegans Roewer 1934 .