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.

Polycricus floridanus Cook, 1899

Original description: Cook O.F. (1899). The Geophiloidea of Florida Keys - Proceedings of the entomological Society of Washington, 4: 303-312, see p. 307.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Polycricus Saussure & Humbert, 1872

Type locality: Sugar Loaf Key, Florida

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Matic Z., Negrea S., Fundora Martínez C. (1977). Recherches sur les Chilopodes hypogés de Cuba. In: Résultats des Expéditions Biospéléologiques Cubano-Roumaines à Cuba. II - Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, Bucuresti, 2: 277-301, see p. 287.

Distribution:

-- within Southern America: Cuba

Notes: Considered a junior synonym of Polycricus marginalis (Meinert, 1886) by Chamberlin (1912 - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 54: 407; 1915 - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 59: 512), but actually different from this latter species according to the original description.