Lithobius giganteus Sseliwanoff, 1881



Lithobius giganteus Sseliwanoff, 1881

Original description: Sseliwanoff A. (1881). Turkestanskia stonochki (Geophilidae Leach) - IzvĂȘstiya Imperatorskago Obshchestva Lyubitelei Estestvoznaniya, Antropologii i Etnogrografii pri Imperatorskom Moskvovskom Universitate, 37: 229-232, see p. 126.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Lithobius Leach, 1814

Type locality: Mongolia: Changai, Ort Chndschirt sudlich von der Stadt Uljassutai; Fluss Buintu-gol

Synonym(s):

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Eason E.H. (1986). On the synonymy of Lithobius giganteus Sseliwanoff 1881 and the taxonomic status of Porobius Attems 1926 (Chilopoda) - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums, Wien, 87B: 181-192, see p. 181, figs 1-7.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Temperate: Kirgizistan; Mongolia

Notes: described as n.sp. also in Sseliwanoff (1881 - Zool. Anz., 73: 15); type loc. according to Sseliwanoff (1881 - Zool. Anz., 73: 15)