Plateurytion yungarum (Pereira,2005)



Plateurytion yungarum (Pereira,2005)

Original description: Pereira L.A. (2005). A new geophilid centipede of the genus Eurytion Attems, 1903 from north-western Argentina. (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae) - Zootaxa, 794: 1-12, see p. 3.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Eurytion Attems, 1903

Type locality: "Jujuy: [...] ca. 50 Km W of Fraile Pintado, close to rivers Candelaria and Normenta" (Argentina)

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Pereira L.A. (2008). On the identity of Geophilus armatus Silvestri, 1895, a junior synonym of Plateurytion tenebrosus (Meinert, 1886), and other Neotropical members of the genus Plateurytion Attems, 1909, including Plateurytion mauryi n. sp. from the Andes of Argentina (Myriapoda: Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) - International Journal of Myriapodology, 1 (1): 55–96, see p. 91.