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.

Pleurolithobius Verhoeff, 1899

Original description: Verhoeff C. (1899). Beiträge zur Kenntnis paläarktischer Myriopoden. XI. Aufsatz: Neue und wenig bekannte Lithobiiden - Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 49: 451-459, see p. 457.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: subgenus

Type species: Lithobius ionicus Silvestri, 1896 - by monotypy

Synonym(s):

• Turkobius Chamberlin, 1952
• Turkobius (Turkobius) Chamberlin, 1952

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Zapparoli M., Minelli A. (1993). Note tassonomiche corologiche ed ecologiche sulle specie del genere Pleurolithobius Verhoeff, 1899 (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha) - Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, 11: 331-345, see p. 332.

Valid Species:

• Pleurolithobius orientis (Chamberlin, 1952)
• Pleurolithobius patriarchalis (Berlese, 1894)

Notes: Originally described as a 'sectio' of Lithobius (Oligobothrus).