Eurytion centralis Silvestri, 1907

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), pp. 1-103 : 12

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Eurytion centralis Silvestri
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1. Eurytion centralis Silvestri , 190­7

Silvestri 1907: 256–257, figs. 81–85 (as Eurytion centralis sp. n.)

Type locality and specimens. Habitat: Columbia: Inirida?

Dimensions. Pedum paria [leg pairs] ♀ 65. Long. corp. [body length] mm 46, lat. 1,3 [width 1.3 mm].

Type material. Holotype ♀ ( ZMH-A0000574 ). COLOMBIA: Inírida River (middle course) [ca. 2°34’N, 69°39’W]. The specimen is dissected and the head and the posterior trunk segments are stored in separate microvi- als. GoogleMaps

Preservation. 1 jar: Label 1. Mittellauf des Inirida Columbien. G. Hübner C., Prof. O. Schneider, d. 25.XI.98; Label 2. Eurytion australis Silv. Typus. Schneider d. 25.XI.98, Inirida - Fl. Columbien. Label 3. N.B. When found, ½ of maxillae missing. In poor condition. 29.VII.1964 (Crabill’s handwriting with imprint: det. R. E. Crabill) .

Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 62, No. 8. Holotype ♀.

Collection remarks. The specimen was collected by the photographer and salesman Georg Hübner (1862– 1935) and Oskar Schneider (1841–1903), a German teacher and professor. See Harms & Dupérré (2018: 13) for details on Hübner’s travels.

Additional remarks. Pereira et al. (1994: 171–174) provide a redescription of the species from the type.

Current systematic position. Ribautia centralis ( Silvestri, 1907) ; transferred to this genus by Ribaut (1912: 84).

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