Correct Authorships, Synonymies, and Remarks on the Type Series of Fourteen Names of Centipedes Introduced by Yoshioki Takakuwa in 1934 and <i>Mecistocephalus takakuwai</i> (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha and Scolopendromorpha)

Abstract

In addition to the 14 species-group names, the correct attribution of Mecistocephalus takakuwai, which has traditionally been attributed to the work by Karl W. Verhoeff published in November 1934, is clarified. This species was described by Takakuwa in the work published in April 1934, but nonetheless, it is concluded that its correct attribution is to Takakuwa's work published in Japanese in October 1932 in Volume 30, Issue No. 47 of the journal Hakubutsugaku Zasshi. Synonymies showing earlier authors' attributions are given for each of these species, and, when possible, the composition of the original type series of each of these species is inferred. In 1955 some of the type material was still said to exist, but by now all of Takakuwa's specimens of these species seem to have been lost.

Taxonomic Accounts and Phylogenetic Positions of the Far East Asian Centipedes Scolopocryptops elegans and S. curtus (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)

“…Also, part of Takakuwa's myriapod collection (see Jonishi and Nakano, 2022) was investigated to clarify whether the remnants of his collection contained the type series of S. elegans and S. curtus.…”