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 Polybothrus ochraceus Folkmanová,1935 is Eupolybothrus transsylvanicus (Latzel, 1882)

Polybothrus ochraceus Folkmanová,1935

Original description: Folkmanova B. (1936). Über einige von Jaroslav Storkán in Bulgarien gesammelte Chilopoden - Bulletin des Institutions Royales d'Histoire Naturelle, Sophia, 9: 93-97, see p. 92.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Polybothrus Latzel, 1880

Type locality: Bulgaria: Botev/=Jumruckcal nordlich von der stadt Kalofer im zentralen Teile der Stara planina (= Balkans)

Synonymy: Stoev P. (2002). A catalogue and key to the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Bulgaria - Pensoft, Sofia, 1-103, see p. 22.

Notes: Described as n. sp. also in Folkmanovà (1936 - Mitt. Konigl. Naturwiss. Inst. Sofia, 9: 95, figs 2-3); restricted type loc. according to Kaczmarek (1973 - Bull. Soc. Amis Sc., Poznan, Sér. D, 14: 185); see also Stoev (2001 - Arthropoda Selecta, 10: 31-54) for discussion on the taxonomic status and indentity with Eupolybothrus transsylvanicus (Latzel, 1882).