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.

Piestophilus carribeanus (Chamberlin,1915)

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1915). New chilopods from Mexico and the West Indies - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 59: 493-541, see p. 529.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Leptophilus Chamberlin, 1915

Type locality: Swan Island

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Crabill R.E. jr. (1962). Concerning chilopod types in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Scolopendromorpha - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13(5): 505-510, see p. 508.

Distribution:

-- within Southern America: Honduras

Notes: Assigned to the genus Piestophilus Cook, 1896 by Crabill (1962 - Annals and Magazine of natural History, (13) 5: 508)