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.

Eurygeophilus Verhoeff, 1899

Original description: Verhoeff C. (1899). Neues über paläarktische Geophiliden - Zoologischer Anzeiger , 22: 363-368, see p. 366.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: subgenus

Type species: Geophilus multistiliger Verhoeff, 1899 - by monotypy

Synonym(s):

• Chalandea Brölemann, 1909
• Mesogeophilus Verhoeff, 1901

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bonato L., Barber A., Minelli A. (2006). The European centipedes hitherto referred to Eurygeophilus, Mesogeophilus, and Chalandea (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha): taxonomy, distribution, and geographical variation in segment number - Journal of Natural History, 40: 415-438, see p. 415.

Valid Species:

• Eurygeophilus multistiliger (Verhoeff, 1899)
• Eurygeophilus pinguis (Brölemann, 1898)