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 (Lithobius) brachycephalus Fanzago, 1880 is Lithobius validus (Meinert, 1872)

Lithobius (Lithobius) brachycephalus Fanzago, 1880

Original description: Fanzago F. (1880). Nuova forma di Miriapodo (Lithobius brachicephalus) - Tip. Azuni, Sassari, [1], see p. 16.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Lithobius Leach, 1814

Type locality: Italy: Avellana (Marche)

Synonymy: Eason E.H., Minelli A. (1976). The identity of the species of Lithobiidae described by F. Fanzago and G. Fedrizzi from 1874 to 1881 (Chilopoda Lithobiomorpha) - Fragmenta Entomologica , 12: 183-205, see p. 200.