vagans Verhoeff, 1905

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 : 287

vagans Verhoeff, 1905

Pselliophora vagans Verhoeff, 1905a

Type material.

Holotype, ♂, ZMB 3893 / 3893 a–e (Verhoeff slide nrs 2617-2621); “Chinchoxo” [Cabinda Province, Angola]; leg. Falkenstein, VI.1876.

Present name.

Junior synonym of Sphendononema rugosa (Newport, 1844); synonymized by Würmli (2005), see also Stoev and Geoffrey (2004).

Remarks.

The collector was Julius Falkenstein (1842-1917), a military doctor who took part in the 'Loango Expedition’ of 1873-1876 to the Congo river delta under Paul Güßfeldt. “Chinchoxo”, sometimes spelled Tschintschotscho, was a station on this expedition. The site of Chinchoxo is a few km north of the modern locality of Lândana, now in an enclave of Angola known as Cabinda Province, surrounded by both the Republic of the Congo to the north and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south.