Cercophonius michaelseni

Monod, Lionel, Duperre, Nadine & Harms, Danilo, 2019, An annotated catalogue of the scorpion types (Arachnida, Scorpiones) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Part I: Parvorder Iurida Soleglad & Fet, 2003, Evolutionary Systematics 3 (2), pp. 109-200 : 109

Cercophonius michaelseni Fig. 11

Cercophonius michaelseni Kraepelin, 1908c: 102-103

Current combination.

Cercophonius michaelseni Kraepelin, 1908

Lectotype.

( Fig. 11 A–B ) ♀ (ZMH-A0000933), [Western Australia], Boorabbin (station 95) [31°12 ’27” S, 120°18 ’31” E], 22.09.1905, Wilhelm Michaelsen leg., Hamburg’s South-West Australia Expedition 1905, ded. 06.1908.

Paralectotype.

( Fig. 11 C–D ) subadult ♂ (ZMH-A0000933), same data as lectotype.

Remarks.

Kraepelin (1908c) listed 2 females and one male (but he was unsure the specimen was a male) as type material. Weidner (1959) erroneously considered the female as holotype and the male as paratype. Acosta (1990) examined three syntypes and designated the female as lectotype and the remaining specimens as paralectotypes. One specimen from the type series is deposited in the Berlin Natural History Museum (ZMB/Arach-15396).

Remarks on collector.

See paragraph on Cercophonius granulosus Kraepelin, 1908 above.

Figures

Figure 11. Cercophonius michaelseni Kraepelin, 1908, female lectotype (A-B), subadult male paralectotype (C-D): A, C dorsal aspect of habitus B, D ventral aspect of habitus. Scale bars: 10 mm (A-B), 5 mm (C-D).