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.

Chomatobius mexicanus (Saussure,1858)

Original description: Saussure H. L. F. de (1858). Note sur la famille des Polydesmides (americaines). Diagnoses de quelques Myriapodes nouveaux de l’ordre des Chilopodes - Revue et Magasin de zoologie pure et appliquées , 2 ser, 10: pp??(includes 545), see p. .

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Himantariidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Geophilus Leach, 1814

Type locality: "Veracruz, Cordoba" (Mexico)

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Foddai D., Pereira L.A., Minelli A. (2000). A catalogue of the geophilomorph centipedes (Chilopoda) from Central and South America including Mexico - Amazoniana, 16: 59-185, see p. 160.

Distribution:

-- within Northern America: Morelos; San Luis Potosí; Texas; Veracruz