Geophilus carpophagus Leach, 1815
Geophilus carpophagus Leach, 1815
Original description: Leach W.E. (1815). A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta; with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders, &c. and descriptions of several new genera and species - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 11: 306-400, see p. 384.
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Geophilidae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Geophilus Leach, 1814
Type locality: "in fructibus Danmoniae passim" = Cornwell-Devon peninsula (United Kingdom)
Synonym(s):
- Geophilus cavannae Fanzago, 1875
- Geophilus condylogaster Latzel, 1880
- Geophilus coryli Verhoeff, 1928
- Geophilus luridus Meinert, 1870
- Geophilus pachymeropus Eisen & Stuxberg, 1868
- Geophilus sedunensis Faës, 1902
- Arthronomalus similis Newport,1845
- Scnipaeus sodalis Bergsøe & Meinert,1866
Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bonato L. & Minelli A. (2011). Geophilus arenarius, a long-misunderstood species in the still unresolved carpophagus species-complex (Chilopoda: Geophilidae) - Zootaxa, 3114: 40–49, see p. 46.
Distribution:
-- within Africa: Açôres; Canary Is.; Cape Verde; Madeira; Morocco
-- within Europe: Corse; Portugal
