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.

Krateraspis Lignau, 1929

Original description: Lignau N. (1929). Neue Myriopoden aus Zentralasien - Zoologischer Anzeiger , 85: 204-218, see p. 207.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: subgenus

Type species: Mecistocephalus meinerti Sseliwanoff, 1881 - by original designation

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bonato L., Foddai D., Minelli A. (2003). Evolutionary trends and patterns in centipede segment number based on a cladistic analysis of Mecistocephalidae (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) - Systematic Entomology , 28: 539-579, see p. 549.

Valid Species:

• Krateraspis meinerti (Sseliwanoff, 1881)
• Krateraspis sselivanovi Titova, 1975