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 Brasilophilus Verhoeff, 1908 is Mecistauchenus Brölemann, 1907

Brasilophilus Verhoeff, 1908

Original description: Verhoeff K.W. (1903). Chilopoda. In: Bronn H. G. (ed.), Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs - Winter, Leipzig, 5(2): 725 pp., see p. 286.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Aphilodon micronyx Brölemann, 1902 - by monotypy

Synonymy: Brölemann H.W. (1909). À propos d'un système des géophilomorphes - Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale , (5)3: 303-340, see p. 321.

Notes: Junior objective synonym of Mecistauchenus Brolemann, 1907. Also acknowledged by Verhoeff himself (1902-1925 - Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreiches, 5 (2): 541, 558)