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.

Poabius Chamberlin, 1912

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1912). New North American chilopods and diplopods - Annals of the Entomological Society of America , 5: 141-172, see p. 153.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Otocryptops verdescens Chamberlin, 1921 - by direct substitution

Fixed by: Chamberlin R.V. (1912). Change of name - Canadian Entomologist , 44:360, 316, see p. .

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Chamberlin R.V. (1912). Change of name - Canadian Entomologist, 44:360, 316, see p. 316.

Notes: This name was preoccupied by Poabius C.L. Koch, 1847 (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha) and was changed by Chamberlin (1912 - Canadian Entomologist, 44: 316)