Lithobius (Lithobius) brevicornis Newport, 1845



The valid name for Lithobius (Lithobius) brevicornis Newport, 1845 is Lithobius forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lithobius (Lithobius) brevicornis Newport, 1845

Original description: Newport G. (1845). Monograph of the class Myriapoda order Chilopoda; with observations on the general arrangement of the Articulata - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 19: 265-302, 349-439, see p. 370.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Lithobius Leach, 1814

Type locality: Italy: Naples

Synonymy: Eason E.H. (1972). The type specimens and identity of the species described in the genus Lithobius by C. L. Koch and L. Koch from 1841 to 1878 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) - Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 22: 103-150, see p. 303, fig. 2.

Notes: non Lithobius brevicornis Daday, 1889; non Gosibius brevicornis Chamberlin, 1917