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 Lithobius (Lithobius) pleonops Menge, 1851 is Lithobius erythrocephalus (C.L. Koch, 1847)

Lithobius (Lithobius) pleonops Menge, 1851

Original description: Menge A. (1851). Myriapoden der Umgegend von Danzig - Neueste Schriften der Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Danzig, 4(4): 1-22, see p. 11.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Lithobius Leach, 1814

Type locality: Poland: Danzig

Synonymy: Brolemann H.W. (1930). Éléments d'une faune des myriapodes de France. Chilopodes - Imprimérie Toulousaine, Toulouse, XIX+405 pp., see p. 293.