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 Gosiphilus Chamberlin, 1912 is Chomatobius Humbert & Saussure, 1870

Gosiphilus Chamberlin, 1912

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1912). The Chilopoda of California. III. - Pomona College Journal of Entomology , 4: 651-672, see p. 671.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Himantariidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Strigamia laticeps Wood, 1862 - by subsequent designation

Fixed by: Crabill R.E. jr. (1968). Concerning the true identities of Gosiphilus and Chomatobius with redescription of the latter's type species (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Himantariidae) - Entomological News , 79: 108-112, see p. 88.

Synonymy: Crabill R.E. jr. (1968). Concerning the true identities of Gosiphilus and Chomatobius with redescription of the latter's type species (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Himantariidae) - Entomological News, 79: 108-112, see p. 109.