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Pleurogeophilus vetustus

Pleurogeophilus vetustus

Silvestri, 1907

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Dimensions. Pedum paria [leg pairs] ♀ 91. Long. corp. [length] mm 84, lat. 1,7 [width 1.7 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
Fig. 5 Silvestri 1907: 249 – 250, figs. 56 – 61 (as Pleurogeophilus vetustus sp. n.)
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. Habitat: Phaleron, Piraeus, Prof. K. Kraepelin leg.
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 0000568). GREECE: Piraeus, Palaio Faliro District [Old Phalerum] [37 ° 56 ’ N, 23 ° 42 ’ E]. Preservation. 1 jar: Label 1. Phaleron of Piraeus I. [off] W. Luxdorf leg. 1903. ded. 21. VII. 1903; Label 2. Pleurogeophilus vetustus Silv. Typus W. Luxdorf l. 21. VII. 1903 Phaleron of Athen (Kraepelin handwriting) (Fig. 3 B); Label 3. Studied VI. 7 – 8.61 R. Crabill — Hamburg (Crabill handwriting). Type status. Only one specimen was used for the description and the present specimen is the holotype. Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 63, No. 29. Holotype ♀. Collection remarks. The type locality “ Phaleron ” refers to the ancient harbour of Athens. The specimen was collected by Mr. W. Luxdorf (contra the original description of Silvestri). Current systematic position. Pleurogeophilus vetustus Silvestri, 1907.
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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FIGURE 3. Historic images: A. Illustration of the private Museum Godeffroy at the Alter Wandrahm 26 (now Speicherstadt) in Hamburg and example of the Godeffroy sales catalogues. Many specimens from the Museum Godeffroy were integrated into the ZMH collections after this museum closed in 1885 and the collections were auctioned. Duplicate specimens were offered for sale in nine sales catalogues (issued between 1864 and 1881) and these catalogues provide the unique Godeffroy number (left column) and critical data on collection localities (third column) but also the sales price. B. Label examples of Pleurogeophilus vetustus (ZMH-A0000568), first label written by K. Kraepelin. C. Label examples of Cormocephalus amphieurys (ZMH- A0000583), first label written by K. Kraepelin. D. Label examples of Scolopendra laeta (ZMH-A0000629), first label written by K. Kraepelin.

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FIGURE 5. Pleurogeophilus vetustus Silvestri, 1907. Syntype ♀ (ZMH-A0000568). Scale bar: 1.0mm.

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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
183227472
Dataset Key
b2e605e3-bf11-45a8-a175-ce716bccb00b
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Backbone Key
2233396
Taxon ID
ED42878659449865D18D8FEE76C99961.taxon
Last Crawled
6/10/2026
Last Interpreted
6/10/2026
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