Proschizotaenia mediocris 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 : 21

17. Proschizotaenia mediocris Silvestri , 190­7

Silvestri 1907: 252–254, figs. 67–74 (as Proschyzotaenia mediocris sp. n.)

Type locality and specimens. Habitat: Usambara, Amani [today Muheza].

Dimensions. Pedum paria [leg pairs] ♀ 43, 45. Long. corp. [body length] mm 12, lat. 0,6 [width 0.6 mm].

Type material. Syntype ♀ ( ZMH-A0000571 ). TANZANIA: Usambara Highland , Muheza, (Amani Medical Research Center) [5°05’58’’S, 38°38’00’’E] .

Preservation. 1 jar: Label 1. Amani 13.XI.03; Label 2. In Saatkästchen; Label 3. Schizotaenia mediocris Silv. Typus. Stuhlmann d. 1905 Amani D. O. Afr.

Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 63, No. 33. Type not specified.

Collection remarks. The type locality “Amani” refers to the present Amani Center for Medical Research, located ca. 40 km west of Tanga. The present specimen was apparently found in a seed box (“Saatkästchen”) .

Current systematic position. Proschizotaenia mediocris Silvestri, 1907 .