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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.

Arenophilus unaster (Chamberlin,1909)

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1909). Some records of North American Geophilidae and Lithobiidae. With a description of new species - Annals of the Entomological Society of America , 2: 175-192, see p. 179.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: subspecies

Original genus: Geophilus Leach, 1814

Type locality: Austin, Texas […]; Louisiana

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1929). Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 52: 1-388, see p. 217.

Notes: Originally described as Geophilus attenuatus unaster. Firstly assigned to the species rank by Chamberlin (1912 - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 54: 417).