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.

Chomatophilus Pocock, 1896

Original description: Pocock R.I. (1895). Chilopoda. In: Godman F. D. & Salvin O. (eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana - Porter, London, 14: 1-40, see p. 39.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Chomatophilus smithi Pocock,1896 - by monotypy

Synonym(s):

• Nuevona Chamberlin, 1941

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Crabill R.E. jr. (1968). On the true identity of Chomatophilus with description of a new species and with key and catalogue of all sogonid genera (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Sogonidae) - Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington , 70: 323-331, see p. 324.

Valid Species:

• Chomatophilus aphanistes Crabill, 1968
• Chomatophilus leonensis (Chamberlin, 1941)
• Chomatophilus smithi Pocock, 1896