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Newportia balzanii

Newportia balzanii

Silvestri, 1895

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Dimensions. Long. corp. mm. 20; lat. corp. mm. 1 – 2 [body length 20 mm, body width 1 – 2 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
Silvestri 1895 b: 767 (as Newportia balzanii 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. Hab [itat]. Paraguay: Rio Apa (Balzan).
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. Syntype ♂ (ZMH-A 0000674). PARAGUAY: Apa River (“ Rio Apa ”) [ca. 22 ° 06 ’ S, 58 ° 02 ’ W]. Preservation. 1 jar: Label. Newportia balzanii Silv. ex typis Rio Apa Argentinien Mus. Turin C. VII. 1903. Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 68, No. 53. Paratype 1 (as balzani). Collection remarks. The specimen was collected by the Italian explorer and zoologist Luigi Balzan (1865 – 1983) and came from the collection of the Museum of Natural History in Turin (Museo Regionale die Scienze Naturali) where additional syntypes are likely preserved. The Rio Apa is located in Paraguay as Silvestri mentioned, not in Argentina (as documented on the label). Current systematic position. Tidops balzanii (Silvestri, 1895); transferred from Newportia by Schileko & Minelli (1998: 293).
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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AnimaliaArthropodaChilopodaScolopendromorphaScolopocryptopidaeNewportiaNewportia balzanii

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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 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 5/27/2021View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
183227584
Dataset Key
b2e605e3-bf11-45a8-a175-ce716bccb00b
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Backbone Key
9818639
Taxon ID
ED42878659189839D18D88A574599BD0.taxon
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6/10/2026
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6/10/2026
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