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Dendrothereua arborum

Dendrothereua arborum

Verhoeff, 1944

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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
Verhoeff 1944: 195 (as Dendrothereua Verh. (für arborum Verh. aus Costa Rica )).
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. Costa Rica.
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 7. COSTA RICA: (ZMH-A 0000679), San José [ca. 9 ° 55 ’ N, 84 ° 05 ’ W]; (ZMH- A 0009374 - 9375), Siquirres Canton, Parismina River (mouth) (“ Salvadora Farm? ”) [ca. 9 ° 49 ’ N, 83 ° 51 ’ W]; (ZMH- A 0009414 - 9417), Reventazón River (“ Farm Hamburg? ”) [ca. 10 ° 17 ’ N, 83 ° 24 ’ W]. Preservation. 1 jar and 7 vials. Jar label: Dendrothereua arborum n. sp. (Verh) K. Verhoeff det. 1042 Costa Rica. Vial 1 (ZMH-A 0000679): Label. San José Costa Rica (imprint) 23. VIII. 30 im Hause, F. Nevermann leg. Eing. Nr. 5, 1934. Vial 2 (ZMH-A 0009375): Label. Costa Rica Salvadora Farm a. Parismina Fluss 4 Km v. Atlantik (imprint) 31. XII. 30, F. Nevermann leg. Eing. Nr. 16, 1931. Vial 3 (ZMH-A 0009374): Label. Costa Rica Salvadora Farm a. Parismina Fluss 4 Km v. Atlantik (imprint) 22.6.31 unter loser Rinde, F. Nevermann leg. Eing. Nr. 49, 1932. Vial 4 (ZMH-A 0009415): Label. Costa Rica Farm Hamburg am Reventazon (imprint) 15. VII. 33, F. Nevermann leg. Eing. Nr. 5, 1934. Vial 5 (ZMH-A 0009414): Label 1. Costa Rica Farm Hamburg am Reventazon (imprint) 20. VII. 33, F. Nevermann leg. Eing. Nr. 5, 1934. Label 2. Unter loser Rinde von Salix (imprint). Vial 6 (ZMH-A 0009416): Label 1. Costa Rica Farm Hamburg am Reventazon 12. II. 34, F. Nevermann leg. Eing. Nr. 7, 1934. (imprint); Label 2. Gesiebt von Waldboden (imprint). Vial 7 (ZMH-A 0009417): Label 1. Costa 537 Rica Farm Hamburg am Reventazon (imprint) 1.3.35 V. welkem Laub i. Urwald, F. Nevermann leg; Label 2. Eing. Nr. 21. 1935. Label 3. Hbg. 1. III. 35 an welkem Laub im Urwald. Old type catalogue. Not listed. Taxonomic remarks. Note on file card: “ Costa Rica, Typen, 7 Nr. n. g. n. sp. Manuskriptname? ” Verhoeff did not specify the number of specimens in his description and all specimens are syntypes. Collection remarks. The specimens were collected by the German entomologist Ferdinand Nevermann (1881 – 1939). The specimen from San José was captured inside a house (“ im Hause ”), a specimen from Salvadora Farm under loose bark (“ unter loser Rind e ”) and another specimen from Farm Hamburg on fallen leaves in rain forest (“ v [on] welkem Laub i [m] Urwald ”). Current systematic position. Junior synonym of Dendrothereua linceci (Wood, 1867) according to Würmli (1973: 79).
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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183227591
Dataset Key
b2e605e3-bf11-45a8-a175-ce716bccb00b
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11212548
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6/10/2026
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