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).
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Sozibius Chamberlin, 1912

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1912). New North American chilopods and diplopods - Annals of the Entomological Society of America , 5: 141-172, see p. 152.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Lithobius tuobukus Chamberlin, 1911 - by original designation

Synonym(s):

• Pearsobius Causey, 1942

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Crabill R.E. jr. (1961). A new Nuevobius with review of the genus (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) - Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society , 55: 121-133, see p. 131.

Valid Species:

• Sozibius carolinus (Causey, 1942)
• Sozibius mullanua Chamberlin & Wang, 1952
• Sozibius paurops Chamberlin, 1944
• Sozibius pennsylvanicus Chamberlin, 1922
• Sozibius proridens (Bollman, 1887)
• Sozibius texanus Chamberlin, 1938
• Sozibius tuobukus (Chamberlin, 1911)

Notes: see also Chamberlin (1922 - Further studies on North American Lithobiidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 57: 259, 260, fig. 1); syn. of Lithobius (Alokobius) according to Attems (1938 - Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle, n.s., 6: 344)