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Cupipes spinifer

Cupipes spinifer

Kraepelin

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Dimensions. Länge [length] 32 mm, Breite 2 1 / 4 mm [width 2.25 mm].
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): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1
Dimensions. Länge [length] 35 mm.
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): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1
Kraepelin 1903: 176 – 177, fig. 117 (as Cupipes spinifer n. sp.).
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): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1
Type locality and specimens. Para. Bisher nur 1 Exemplar [until now only 1 specimen] (Mus. Hamburg).
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): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1
Type material. Holotype (ZMH-A 0000581). BRAZIL, Pará State [ca. 5 ° 40 ’ S, 52 ° 44 ’ W]. Preservation. 1 jar: Label 1. Cupipes spinifer Krpln Typus Schulz l. 1903, Para (Kraepelin handwriting); Label 2. Cupipes spinifer Kraepelin (Arthrorhabdus spinifer (Kraepelin )) 1 Expl. Holotype (imprint: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg). Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 68, No. 49. Holotype. Taxonomic remarks. This species was placed in the genus Rhoda Meinert, 1866 for a long time but Rhoda was recently synonymized with Scolopendropsis Brandt, 1841 (Schileyko et al. 2020). The latter name has priority. Current systematic position. Scolopendropsis spinifer (Kraepelin, 1903); transferred from Cupipes by Attems (1930: 61) as Arthrorhabdus. Assigned to Rhoda by Shelley & Chagas Jr (2004: 533) which is now a synonym of Scolopendropsis. 10 ­ 0 ­. Hemicormocephalus novaehollandiae Kraepelin, 190 ­ 8 Kraepelin 1908: 122 – 123, plate XII, fig. 17 (as Hemicormocephalus novaehollandiae n. sp.) Type locality and specimens. Fundnotiz [locality note]: Ein wohlerhaltenes Exemplar dieser Art wurde bei Stat. 109, Subiaco, nahe bei Perth gesammelt. Ein defektes Exemplar stammt von Stat. 107, Fremantle. [One specimen in a good condition was collected at station 109, Subiaco near Perth. One damaged specimen from station 107, Fremantle.].
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): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1
Type material. Syntypes 2. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: (ZMH-A 0000610), East Fremantle (station 116) [ca. 31 ° 57 ’ S, 115 ° 49 ’ E]; (ZMH-A 0000611) Subiaco (northern) (station 109) [ca. 31 ° 57 ’ S, 115 ° 49 ’ E]. Preservation. 2 jars. Jar 1. Lectotoype (ZMH-A 0000610): Label 1. Hamb. S. W. Austral. Exp. 1905 116 East Fremantle, nördl. 26. VI. (imprint); Label 2. Hemicormocephalus novaehollandiae Krpln Co-Typus, Freemantle, Michaelsen VI. 08 (Kraepelin handwriting). Jar 2. Paralectotype (ZMH-A 0000611): Label 1. Hamb. S. W. Austral. Exp. 1905 109 Subiaco, nördl. 26. VI. (imprint); Label 2. Hemicormocephalus novaehollandiae Krpln Typus Subiaco bei Perth. Coll. Michaelsen VI. 08. (Kraepelin handwriting). Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 68, No. 50. Holotype, paratype. Type status. Weidner (1960: 68) listed a holotype from Subiaco and 1 damaged paratype from Fremantle. No holotype was designated in the original study and both specimens are syntypes. Collection remarks. The specimens were collected by Wilhelm Michaelsen during his expedition to Western Australia 1905. Current systematic position. Cormocephalus novaehollandiae (Kraepelin, 1908).
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): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1

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An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article 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): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1

Abstract

Centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) are carnivorous arthropods that live in leaf litter and soil habitats on all continents except Antarctica. Roughly 3,300 species have been described to date but the taxonomy is still progressing and requires a thorough documentation of type material and type deposits. In this paper we provide an annotated catalogue of the centipede type collection at the Zoological Museum (ZMH) in Hamburg. This collection comprises 490 type specimens belonging to 141 taxa originally described as species, subspecies and varieties. More than half of these taxa were described by the pioneering myriapodologists Carl Graf Attems (Vienna) and Karl Kraepelin (Hamburg). The collection includes material representing 93 valid species or subspecies and contains specimens predominantly from Australia (33%), Asia (22%), Africa (20%) and South America (20%). Taxonomically, the focus is on the centipede orders Scolopendromorpha (56 valid species) and Geophilomorpha (28 valid species) with fewer types for the Lithobiomorpha (8 species). A total of 48 taxa (34% of type species) have been synonymized since they were originally described and the type material for 12 additional species at the ZMH is lost. We provide a brief historical overview of this collection from its origin at the Museum Godeffroy and the Johanneum in Hamburg, including the most relevant taxonomists and collectors, followed by an annotated taxonomic catalogue with details on all species that are or were represented by type material.

Thofern D, Dupérré N, Harms D, plazi (2021). An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-14.

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GBIF Usage Key
183227426
Dataset Key
b2e605e3-bf11-45a8-a175-ce716bccb00b
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Backbone Key
11221331
Taxon ID
ED4287865968984AD18D8873714A9F26.taxon
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6/10/2026
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6/10/2026
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