Prolamnonyx Silvestri, 1919


The valid name for Prolamnonyx Silvestri, 1919 is Arrup Chamberlin, 1912

Prolamnonyx Silvestri, 1919

Original description: Silvestri F. (1919). Contributions to a knowledge of the Chilopoda Geophilomorpha of India - Record of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 16: 45-107, see p. 84.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: subgenus

Type species: Geophilus holstii Pocock, 1895 - by original designation

Synonymy: Crabill R.E. jr. (1964). A revised interpretation of the primitive centipede genus Arrup, with redescription of its type-species and list of known species - Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , 77: 161-170, see p. 163.

Notes: The original combination of the type species was proposed with doubt by Pocock (1895)