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 Lithobius ankarensis Verhoeff, 1944 is Lithobius nigripalpis (L. Koch, 1867)

Lithobius ankarensis Verhoeff, 1944

Original description: Verhoeff K.W. (1945). Asya hayvanlari ve zoogeografiyasi hakkinda. Asiatische Beiträge. VIII. - Istambul Universitesi Orman Fakültesi Dergisi, 9B: 307-347, see p. 325.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Lithobius Leach, 1814

Type locality: Turkey: Ankara

Synonymy: Zapparoli M. (1988). Chilopodi di Turchia. I. Revisione dei Lithobius del gruppo piceus (Chilopoda Lithobiomorpha) - Fragmenta Entomologica , 21: 17-60, see p. 45, 53.