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 Geophilus atopleurus Chamberlin, 1909 is Geophilus mordax (Meinert, 1886)

Geophilus atopleurus Chamberlin, 1909

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1909). Some records of North American Geophilidae and Lithobiidae. With a description of new species - Annals of the Entomological Society of America , 2: 175-192, see p. 181.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Geophilus Leach, 1814

Type locality: Raleigh, North Carolina

Synonymy: Chamberlin R.V. (1912). The Geophiloidea of the Southeastern States - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 54: 405-436, see p. 414.