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Geophilus corralinus

Geophilus corralinus

Attems

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Attems 1903 b: 253 – 254, plate 14, figs. 33 – 38 (as Geophilus (Pachymerium) corralinus n. sp.); see also Attems 1903 a: 80
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 68 mm, Breite 2,5 mm, vorn am breitesten. 61 – 65 Beinpaare bei ♂ und ♀ [Length 68 mm, width 2.5 mm, max. width in front. 61 – 65 leg pairs for ♂ and ♀].
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. Fundort [locality]: Corral (Dr. Plate); Valparaiso (Salto und Viña del mar), Valdivia (Estancilla und Putabla), Corral, Wald unter Steinen [forest under rocks] (Dr. Michaelsen).
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 4. CHILE: (ZMH-A 0000554), Valparaiso (Arroya del Salto) [ca. 33 ° 35 ’ S; 71 ° 31 ’ W]; (ZMH-A 0000555), Valdivia Province, Corral [ca. 39 ° 52 ’ S, 73 ° 26 ’ W]; (ZMH-A 0004210), Valdivia, Estancilla (Teja Island) [ca. 39 ° 48 ’ S, 73 ° 15 ’ W]; (ZMH-A 0004211), Valdivia, Putabla [ca. 39 ° 41 ’ S, 73 ° 02 ’ W]. Preservation. 4 jars (second jar with a vial). Jar 1 (ZMH-A 0000554): Label. Geophilus (Pachymerium) corralinus Att. Coll. Michaelsen 20. V. 93. Salto Valparaiso. Jar 2 (ZMH-A 0000555): Label. Geophilus (Pachymerium) corralinus Att. Typus. Coll. Michaelsen 5. VII. 93. Corral, Wald, unter Steinen. Vial 1: Label. PARATYPE Geophilus corralinus Att. (= Chilenophilus corralinus). det. R. Crabill 6. V. 60. Dissected, 6. V. 60; R. Crabill. Hamburg. Jar 3 (ZMH-A 0004210) Label. Geophilus corralinus Att. Coll. Michaelsen 09. IV. 93. Valvidia, Estancilla. N. B. Should be checked is probably a paratype. R. Crabill- 6. V. 60. Jar 4. (ZMH-A 0004211) Label. Geophilus corralinus Att. Coll. Michaelsen 29. IV. 93. Valvidia, Putabla. Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 62, No. 12. Holotype and paratypes (number not specified). Type status. Attems (1903 b) did not state the number of specimens in his description. Weidner (1960: 62) listed a holotype from Corral and 1 paratype from Valparaíso which are reinterpreted here as syntypes. Additional type material. Type material, including microscope slides, from South America, Chile: Valdivia, Estancielle (coll. W. Michaelsen; NHMW no. 6139) and Corral (coll. L Plate October 1894, don. L. Plate; no. 6140) are held at the NHMW. These specimens are also syntypes. Ilie et al. (2009: 21 – 22) noted: “ revised by Ralph E. Crabill, who prepared the microslide. Two further female syntypes from Corral, collected by Ludwig Plate, are stored in the ZMB (Moritz & Fischer 1973: 341; no. 2916) and syntypes (incorrectly indicated as holotype and paratypoid) from Corral, Valparaíso and Valdivia are preserved in the ZMH (Weidner 1960: 62) ”. Collection remarks. All specimens were collected by Wilhelm Michaelsen during his expedition to the southern tip of South America 1892 – 93. Taxonomic remarks. Considered a junior synonym of Pachymerinus millepunctatus (Gervais, 1947) by Silvestri (1905: 757) but actually a distinct species (Bonato et al. 2016). Current systematic position. Chilenophilus corralinus (Attems, 1903); transferred to this genus by Attems (1909: 27).
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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183227485
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11141720
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