aegyptica 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 : 281

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.12882

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scientific name

aegyptica Verhoeff, 1905
status

 

aegyptica Verhoeff, 1905 View in CoL

Thereuonema syriaca var. aegyptica Verhoeff, 1905a

Type material.

Paratypes, 1♂, 1♀, ZMB 3892 / 3892 a–h (Verhoeff slide nrs 1608, 2958-2964); “Ägypten” [Egypt]; leg. Hemprich & Ehrenberg.

Present name.

Junior synonym of Thereuonema microstoma (Meinert, 1886); synonymized by Würmli (1975a).

Remarks.

The collectors were the famous explorers Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich (1796-1825) and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876), who were active in the Middle East from 1820 until Hemprich’s death in 1825. Note that the alcohol type material of this subspecies is currently stored in the ' syriaca ' jar.