ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
Bonato L., Chagas Junior A.,
Edgecombe G.D. Lewis J.G.E.,
Minelli A., Pereira L.A.,
Shelley R.M., Stoev P.,
Zapparoli M. (2016)
ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue
of Centipedes (Chilopoda).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

The valid name for Eremobius Chamberlin, 1925 is Lithobius Leach, 1814

Eremobius Chamberlin, 1925

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1925). The Ethopolidae of America north of Mexico - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 57: 385-437, see p. 408.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Lithobius provocator Pocock,1891 - by original designation

Synonymy: Eason E.H. (1973). The type specimens and identity of the species described in the genus Lithobius by R. L. Pocock from 1890 to 1901 (Chilopoda Lithobiomorpha) - Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 25: 41-83, see p. 59.

Notes: preoccupied by Eremobius Gould, 1839 (Aves) and Eremobius Blanchard, 1851 (Orthoptera) (see Jeekel, 2005 - Myriapod Memoranda, suppl. 1: 15)