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.

Metaxythus Crabill, 1968

Original description: Crabill R.E. jr. (1968). Concernig the evolution of the Oryidae with description of a primitive new genus (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Oryidae) - Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum, Hamburg , 61: 243-248, see p. 244.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Oryidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Metaxythus austrinus Crabill,1968 - by original designation

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Crabill R.E. jr. (1968). Concernig the evolution of the Oryidae with description of a primitive new genus (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Oryidae) - Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum, Hamburg , 61: 243-248, see p. 244.

Valid Species:

• Metaxythus austrinus Crabill, 1968