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 Trematoptychus Peters, 1862 is Rhysida Wood, 1862

Trematoptychus Peters, 1862

Original description: Peters (1862). ***Title?*** - Monber. Ak. Berlin, 82, see p. 529.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Ptychotrema afra Peters, 1855 - by monotypy

Synonymy: Kraepelin K. (1903). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten , (2)20: 1-276, see p. 139.

Notes: Though Trematoptychus was often considered a replacement name for Ptychotrema, Peters clearly regarded it as as different from Ptychotrema(see Jeekel,2005: 61)