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.

Probothropolys Verhoeff, 1907 [subgenus of Bothropolys Wood, 1862].

Original description: Verhoeff K.W. (1908). Chilopoda. In: Bronn H. G. (ed), Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreiches - Winter, Leipzig, 5 (2): 725 pp, see p. 240..

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: subgenus

Type species: Bothropolys lutulentus Verhoeff, 1930 - by monotypy

Synonymy: Crabill R.E. jr. (1955). Concerning the genotypes of Bothropolys, Polybothrus and Eupolybothrus (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) - Entomological News, 66: 107-110, see p. 109.

Notes: Type species designated by subsequent monotypy in Verhoeff (1930 - Zool. Anz., 91: 250, fig. 10). See also Chamberlin (1925 - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 57: 389)