Geophilus Bosniensis
''Geophilus bosniensis'' is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae endemic to Bosnia and Herzegovina. It grows up to 30 millimeters and has 75 leg pairs, as well as sternites unseparated in the median but with a suture line, and sternal pore areas in the trunk segments only. Overall, the identity and phyletic position of this centipede are uncertain. Related species ''Geophilus strictus'' Latzel, 1880 is similar to ''G. bosniensis'', but differs in that it has fewer hairs, a longer cephalic plate, a lack of anal leg claws, and pleural The pleural cavity, pleural space, or interpleural space is the potential space between the pleurae of the pleural sac that surrounds each lung. A small amount of serous pleural fluid is maintained in the pleural cavity to enable lubrication bet ... glands which "open in a pit covered by the last ventral shield". ''G. hirsutus'' Porat, 1871 (now '' Necrophloeophagus punctiventris'' Newport, 1844) corresponds to ''G. bosniens ...
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Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff
Karl (or Carl) Wilhelm Verhoeff (25 November 1867 – 6 December 1944) was a German myriapodologist and entomologist, specialising in myriapods ( millipedes, centipedes, and related species) as well as woodlice and to a lesser extent insects. Biography Karl W. Verhoeff was born on 25 November 1867 in Soest in Westphalia, the son of the apothecary Karl M. Verhoeff and his wife Mathilde (born Rocholl). He completed his ''Abitur'' examination in Soest in 1889 and completed his doctoral thesis in zoology in Bonn in 1893. In 1902 he married Marie Kringer, who died in 1937 during surgery. The marriage produced three children, two daughters and a son, the son dying in 1942 on the Russian front. He was briefly employed (1900–1905) at the ' in Berlin, but for the remainder of his long career, he worked privately. Verhoeff undertook a number of co