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.

Allopolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 [subgenus of Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907].

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. 241..

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: subgenus

Type species: Lithobius koenigi Verhoeff, 1891 - by subsequent designation

Fixed by: Jeekel C.A.W. (1963). The generic and subgeneric names of the European Lithobiidae generally referred to Polybothrus Latzel 1880 (Chilopoda Lithobiida) - Entomologische Berichten, 23: 193-195, see p. 195.

Synonym(s):

• Orthothereua Verhoeff, 1905
• Teleotelson Verhoeff, 1936

Synonymy: Stoev P., Akkari N., Zapparoli M., Porco D., Enghoff H., Edgecombe G.D., Georgiev T., Penev L. (2010). The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with a key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group - ZooKeys, 50: 29-77, see p. 35.

Valid Species:

• Eupolybothrus (Allopolybothrus) nudicornis (Gervais, 1837)

Notes: The currently accepted subgeneric division of Eupolybothrus is unsatisfactory.