Lithobius platypus Newport,1845
The valid name for Lithobius platypus Newport,1845 is Hessebius barbipes (Porat, 1893)
Lithobius platypus 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. 371.
Order: Lithobiomorpha
Family: Lithobiidae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Lithobius Leach, 1814
Type locality: Egypt
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. 304.
Notes: Probable but uncertain synonymy. Non Arebius platypus Chamberlin, 1941
