Thereuopoda clunifera (Wood, 1862)

Dunlop, Jason A., Friederichs, Anja & Langermann, Jasmin, 2017, A catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2), pp. 281-295 : 290

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.12882

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:76CB39EE-6E92-4B79-BEA2-920982308F2A

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/ECD4216B-AF45-8212-C937-ED647BB9931C

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scientific name

Thereuopoda clunifera (Wood, 1862)
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Thereuopoda clunifera (Wood, 1862) View in CoL

Material.

1 specimen; ZMB 750; “Japan”; leg. Hilgendorf. 2 specimens; ZMB 2128; “Japan”; leg. Hilgendorf. 3 specimens; ZMB 1457; “Japan”; leg. Hilgendorf. 1 specimen; ZMB 3844; “Formosa” [Taiwan]; leg. Haberer; (arrived in Berlin 10.IX.1904). 1 specimen; ZMB 3897; “Japan”; leg. Hilgendorf. Two Verhoeff slides (nrs. 2697-8, as Scutigera , 3007-29); Japan.

Remarks.

The collector Haberer could be the doctor and naturalist Karl Albert Haberer (1864-1941) who is noted as having been active in China and Japan around 1899. He collected a molar tooth in China that eventually led to the discovery of "Peking Man".