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.

Lamyctopristus Attems, 1928

Original description: Attems C. (1928). The Myriopoda of South Africa - Annals of the South African Museum , 26: 1-431, see p. 64.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Henicopidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Lamyctopristus validus Attems,1928 - by monotypy

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Edgecombe G.D. (2003). A new genus of henicopid centipede (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New Caledonia - Memoirs of the Queensland Museum , 49: 269-284, see p. 64.

Valid Species:

• Lamyctopristus denticulatus (Attems, 1908)
• Lamyctopristus ergus (Chamberlin, 1951)
• Lamyctopristus numidicus (Latzel in Gadeau de Kerville, 1886)
• Lamyctopristus setigerus (Lawrence, 1955)
• Lamyctopristus sinuatus (Porat, 1893)
• Lamyctopristus validus Attems, 1928

Notes: Classification of Lamyctopristus as the nominate subgenus and Lamyctopristus (Eumyctes) follows Edgecombe 2003, Mem. Qld. Mus., 49:272.