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).
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Strigamia chionophila Wood, 1862

Original description: Wood H.C.jr. (1862). On the Chilopoda of North America with a catalogue of all the specimens in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution - Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , (2)5(1): 5-52, see p. 50.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae ("Linotaeniinae")

Original rank: species

Original genus: Strigamia Gray, 1843

Type locality: "Fort Simpson, Red River" (Canada)

Synonym(s):

• Linotaenia miuropus Chamberlin, 1902

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1929). Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 52: 1-388, see p. 228.

Notes: Considered a possible junior synonym of Strigamia acuminata (Leach, 1815) by Chamberlin (1920 - The Canadian Entomologist, 52: 95), but this is still uncertain.