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.

Akymnopellis Shelley, 2008

Original description: Shelley R. M. (2008). Revision of the centipede genus Hemiscolopendra Kraepelin, 1903: and possible misidentifications of Scolopendra spp.; proposal of Akymnopellis, n. gen. and redescriptions of its South American components (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae: Scolopendrinae) - International Journal of Myriapodology, 2: 171-204, see p. 174.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Scolopendra chilensis Gervais, 1847 - by original designation

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Shelley R. M. (2008). Revision of the centipede genus Hemiscolopendra Kraepelin, 1903: and possible misidentifications of Scolopendra spp.; proposal of Akymnopellis, n. gen. and redescriptions of its South American components (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae: Scolopendrinae) - International Journal of Myriapodology, 2: 171-204, see p. 174.

Valid Species:

• Akymnopellis chilensis (Gervais, 1847)
• Akymnopellis laevigata (Porat, 1876)
• Akymnopellis platei (Attems, 1903)