ChiloBase 2.0

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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).
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Lithobius spinipes Say, 1821

Original description: Say Th. (1821). Description of the Myriapoda of the United States - Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , 2 (1): 102-114, see p. 108.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Lithobius Leach, 1814

Type locality: "United States" (U.S.A.)

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bollman C.H. (1893). Notes upon the species of Myriapoda Syngnatha described by Thomas Say - Bulletin of the United States National Museum , 46: 144-149, see p. 146.

Distribution:

-- within Northern America: Québec

Notes: taxonomic identity uncertain; although previous authors (Stuxberg, Wood) identified Lithobius spinipes Say, 1821 with Lithobius forficatus (Linné, 1758) or Lithobius americanus Newport, 1844 (= Lithobius forficatus Linné, 1758), Bollmann (1893 - Bull. U.S. national Museum, 46: 146) consider Lithobius spinipes as a valid species, identical to Lithobius transmarinus L. Koch, 1862 and Lithobius mordax L. Koch, 1862, see also Chamberlin (1925 - Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoology, 57: 473, 478) and Kevan (1983 - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 61 (12): 2938-2955); non Harpolithobius spinipes Folkmanová, 1958