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.

Hessebius megapus (Muralevitch,1907)

Original description: Muralewitsch W.S. (1907). Zur Myriapodenfauna des Kaukasus - Zoologischer Anzeiger , 31: 329-351, see p. 334.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Lithobius Leach, 1814

Type locality: Azerbaidjan: Ssi-Doba im Lenkoran Kreis und von Lenkoran

Synonym(s):

• Lithobius megapus bidens Folkmanová & Dobroruka, 1960

Subspecies:

• Lithobius megapus bidens Folkmanová & Dobroruka, 1960

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. 49.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Temperate: Azerbaijan