Scutigera birmanica Pocock, 1891

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 : 80-81

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scientific name	Scutigera birmanica Pocock, 1891
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138. Scutigera birmanica Pocock, 1891

Pocock 1891: 403–404 (as Scutigera birmanica sp. n.)

Type locality and specimens. Sig. L. Fea obtained three adult specimens at Palon ( Pegu) [ Bago] .

Dimensions. Length up to 40 mm.

Type material. Syntype ( ZMH-A0000683 ) . MYANMAR: Bago Region, Bago (“ Palon [ Pegu] ”) [ca. 17°19’N, 96°27’E] GoogleMaps .

Preservation. 1 jar: Label. Scutigera birmanica Poc. ex. typ., Palon (backside with the imprint: Viaggio in Birmania di L. FEA, 1885–89.).

Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 61, No. 2. Paratype 1.

Collection remarks. The specimens were collected during Leonardo Fea’s expedition to Birma [today Myanmar] 1885–89 (“ Viaggio in Birmania di L. FEA, 1885–89 ”). Two additional syntypes (adult & subadult ♂, Birma- nia, Bhamo) are present at the MNHN and more specimens of the original series are at the ZMUC and perhaps the BMNH ( Stoev & Geoffroy 2004: 7–8) .

Current systematic position. Junior synonym of Thereuopoda longicornis (Fabricius, 1793) according to Würmli (1979: 46).