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 tenuitarsis (Pocock,1888)

Original description: Pocock R.I. (1888). Contributions to our knowledge of the Myriopoda of Dominica - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (6)2: 472-483, see p. 475.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Geophilus Leach, 1814

Type locality: Dominica

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: Dominica; Dominican Republic

Notes: Assigned to the genus Piestophilus Cook, 1896 by Cook (1896 - Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 18: 73).