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).
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Lithobius asper Muralevitch, 1926

Original description: Muralewitsch W.S. (1926). Übersicht über die Chilopodenfauna des Kaukasus. II. Mitteilung - Zoologischer Anzeiger , 69: 27-44, see p. 31.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Lithobius Leach, 1814

Type locality: Caucasus: Efremowka; Arpagel-Tschaldyr; Chozakent Pass; Oriowka

Subspecies:

• Lithobius asper laeviceps Zalesskaja, 1973
• Lithobius asper asper Muralevitch, 1926

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Zalesskaja N.T. (1978). Opredelntel'mnogonoscek-kostianok SSSR (Chilopoda Lithobiomorpha) [Identification book of the lithobiomorph centipedes of the USSR (Chilopda Lithobiomorpha)] - Nauka, Moskva, 212 pp., see p. 112.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Temperate: Armenia; Georgia

Notes: described as n. sp. also in Muralevitch (1929 - Mém. Séct. Zool. Soc. Amis Sci. Nat., Anthr., Etnogr., 4: 53)