Exocera oligopoda (Rafinesque,1820)



Exocera oligopoda (Rafinesque,1820)

Original description: Rafinesque C.S. (1820). Annals of nature, or annual synopsis of new genera and species of animals, plants etc. discovered in North America. First annual number for 1820 - Lexington, pp. 20, see p. 8.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family:

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mycotheres Rafinesque, 1820

Type locality: Luzerne Mountains of New York

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Hoffman R.L., Crabill R.E. (1953). C. S. Rafinesque as the real father of American myriapodology: an analysis of his hitherto unrecognized species - Florida Entomologist , 36: 73-82, see p. 76.

Notes: This name was based on a young lithobomorph and is unrecognizable.