Ballonema gracilipes Verhoeff, 1904

Material.

1 specimen, ZMB 5382 "Sattelberg bei Finschhafen" [Sattelberg near Finschhafen, Morobe Province Papua New Guinea]; leg. Neuhauß, XII.1908. 1 specimen, ZMB 5383 "Neu Guinea, Sepik 1570 m lang N.68" [Sepik River, Papua New Guinea]; leg. Schultze, XI.1910.

Remarks.

The collector of ZMB 5382 was Richard Neuhauss (1855-1915) a medical doctor and anthropologist who was active in New Guinea from 1908-1910. The collector of ZMB 5383 was Leonhard Schultze (1872-1955) a zoologist and anthropologist who took part in a Dutch–German expedition to New Guinea in 1910. Note that the identity of this material was confirmed in the literature by Butler et al. (2010: 548).