Type specimens of centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda) in the National Museum, Prague (Czech Republic).

Petr Dolejš

doi:10.3897/zookeys.510.8636

Abstract

The centipede collection in the National Museum in Prague contains type material of 16 taxa (14 species and two subspecies), of which 15 were described by Luděk J. Dobroruka and one by Karl W. Verhoeff: Allothereua wilsonae Dobroruka, 1979; Chinobius alenae Dobroruka, 1980; Lithobius corrigendus Dobroruka, 1988; Lithobius creticus Dobroruka, 1977; Lithobius erythrocephalus mohelensis Dobroruka, 1959; Lithobius evae Dobroruka, 1958; Lithobius magurensis Dobroruka, 1971; Lithobius purkynei Dobroruka, 1957; Lithobius tatricus Dobroruka, 1958; Lithobius tatricus monounguis Dobroruka, 1958; Monotarsobius homolaci Dobroruka, 1971; Monotarsobius krali Dobroruka, 1979; Pachymerium dilottiae Dobroruka, 1976; Pachymerium hanzaki Dobroruka, 1976; Scolopendra aztecorum Verhoeff, 1934 and Strigamia olympica Dobroruka, 1977. Of these 16 taxa, five were described from the Czech Republic, three from Slovakia and eight from other countries (Greece, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Nepal, Russia and Uzbekistan). The eight taxa described from the Czech and Slovak Republics are now considered as junior synonyms but the eight taxa described from the other countries are still valid.

Highlights

The most important part of the zoological collection of National Museum in Prague (NMP) is the type material
The process of cataloguing the zoological type material is ongoing with this catalogue of centipede type material
There are no types of other myriapod classes despite 19 millipede and two symphylan taxa were described from the territory of the Czech Republic (Bezděk 2011)

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Introduction

The most important part of the zoological collection of National Museum in Prague (NMP) is the type material. There are no types of other myriapod classes despite 19 millipede and two symphylan taxa were described from the territory of the Czech Republic (Bezděk 2011). The centipede type material was deposited to the NMP in three distinct periods: 1930–1936 (material collected during expeditions organized by the NMP and people who were collaborating with the NMP), 1975–1978 J. Dobroruka) and 2012–2014 (material found in Dobroruka’s personal collection). Majority of the material was collected by Czechs and the new taxa originated from these collections were described by L. The latter author described new Scolopendra species based on material collected by Czech acarologist Prof.

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