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Scolopocryptops megacephalus

Scolopocryptops megacephalus

Kohlrausch, 1879

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Dimensions. Körperlänge [body length] 58 [mm]; Kopflänge 4,9; Halsbreite 5,5 mm. [length of head 4.9 mm, width of neck 5.5 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. 17 Kohlrausch 1879: 69, plate 6, fig. 1 (as Sc. megacephalus 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. Gymnas. Johann. 1 Exemplar. — Fundort [locality]: Rosario.
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 0000678). COLOMBIA: Rosario Island (Islas de Rosario) [ca. 10 ° 11 ’ N, 75 ° 45 ’ W]. Preservation. 1 jar: Label 1. Scolopocryptops megacephalus […] Rosario Hamburg Gymn. 67; Label 2. Scolopocryptops melanostomus Newp. Orig. zu Sc. megacephalus Kohlr. Rosario. Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 71, No. 87. Holotype. Collection remarks. The specimen was originally part of the collection of the Gymnasium Johanneum in Hamburg (later on ZMH). Taxonomic remarks. Scolopocryptops megacephalus is not listed by Bonato et al. (2016) as a synonym of Scolopocryptops melanostoma but as mentioned by Chagas-Jr. (2010) it was considered a synonym of Otocryptops melanostomus by Kraepelin (1903: 74) and remains a junior subjective synonym until today (Chagas-Jr. 2010). Current systematic position. Junior synonym of Scolopocryptops melanostoma (Newport, 1845) according to Kraepelin (1903: 74). Order Scutigeromorpha Pocock, 1895 A total of 15 type specimens belonging to 5 original type species or subspecies are preserved at the ZMH. The types of one additional species (Cermatia violacea L. Koch, 1865 = Allothereua maculata (Newport, 1844) are lost.
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 17. Scolopocryptops megacephalus Kohlrausch, 1879. Holotype (ZMH-A0000678). Scale bar: 5.0mm.

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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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183227586
Dataset Key
b2e605e3-bf11-45a8-a175-ce716bccb00b
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11192598
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