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 Orphnaeus brasiliensis Meinert, 1870 is Orphnaeus lividus (Meinert, 1870)

Orphnaeus brasiliensis Meinert, 1870

Original description: Meinert F. (1870). Myriapoda Musaei Hauniensis. Bitrag til Myriapodernes morphologi og systematik. I. Geophile - Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, (3)7: 1-128, see p. 20.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Oryidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Orphnaeus Meinert, 1870

Type locality: Rio de Janeiro

Synonymy: Pocock R.I. (1891). On the Myriopoda of Burma. Part 2. Report upon the Chilopoda collected by Sig. L. Fea and Mr. E. W. Oates - Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, (ser.2)10: 401-432, see p. 426.