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.

Zelanophilus provocator (Pocock,1891)

Original description: Pocock R.I. (1891). Descriptions of some new Geophilidae in the collection of the British Museum - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (6)8: 215-227, see p. 225.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Zelanophilidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Geophilus Leach, 1814

Type locality: Wellington

Synonym(s):

• Australiophilus microtrichus Attems, 1947
• Zelanophilus wheeleri Chamberlin, 1920

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Crabill R.E. jr. (1963). A preliminary review of Zelanophilus with description of a new Australian species (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae) - Psyche, 70: 164-169, see p. 165.

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