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.

Theatops erythrocephalus C. L. Koch, 1847

Original description: Koch C.L. (1847). System der Myriapoden. In: Herrich-Schäffer L. (ed.), Kritische Revision der Insectenfauna Deutschlands. - Pustet, Regensburg, 3:1-270, see p. 173.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Plutoniumidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Theatops Newport, 1844

Type locality: Croatia, Pula

Synonym(s):

• Opisthemega lusitanum Verhoeff, 1896
• Theatops erythrocephalus breuili Matic, 1960

Subspecies:

• Theatops erythrocephalus breuili Matic, 1960

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Shelley R.M. (1997). The holarctic centipede subfamily Plutoniuminae (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) (Nomen correctum ex subfamily Plutoniinae Bollman, 1893) - Brimleyana, 24: 51-113, see p. 98.

Distribution:

-- within Europe: Bosnia-Herzegovina; Croatia; Portugal; Spain