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.

The valid name for Porobius Attems, 1926 is Ezembius Chamberlin, 1919

Porobius Attems, 1926

Original description: Attems C. (1926). Étude sur les myriapodes recueillis par M. Henri Gadeau de Kerville pendant son voyage zoologique en Syrie. In: Voyage zoologique d'Henri Gadeau de Kerville en Syrie (Avril-Juin 1908) - J.-B. Baillière et fils, Paris, 1: 221-264, see p. 231.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Lithobius cacodontus Attems,1904 - by subsequent designation

Fixed by: Eason E.H. (1986). On the synonymy of Lithobius giganteus Sseliwanoff 1881 and the taxonomic status of Porobius Attems 1926 (Chilopoda) - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums, Wien , 87B: 181-192, see p. 243.

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Eason E.H. (1986). On the synonymy of Lithobius giganteus Sseliwanoff 1881 and the taxonomic status of Porobius Attems 1926 (Chilopoda) - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums, Wien, 87B: 181-192, see p. 181.

Notes: described as new genus also in Attems (1927 - Abh. senckenb. naturforsch. Ges., 39: 243, 244); subgenus of Lithobius Leach, 1814 in Attems (1938 - Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle, n.s., 6: 344)