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 Azygethus Chamberlin, 1920 is Orphnaeus Meinert, 1870

Azygethus Chamberlin, 1920

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1920). The Myriopoda of the Australian region - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 64: 1-269, see p. 33.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Azygethus atopus Chamberlin, 1920 - by original designation

Synonymy: Attems C. (1929). Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 52: 1-388, see p. 348.