Chileana Özdikmen, 2009


Chileana Özdikmen, 2009

Original description: Özdikmen H. (2009). New names for two preoccupied centipede genera (Chilopoda) - Munis Entomology & Zoology, 4 (1): 227-229, see p. 227.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae ("Linotaeniinae")

Original rank: genus

Type species: Linotaenia araucanensis Silvestri, 1899

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Chamberlin R.V. (1955). Reports of the Lund University Chile Expedition 1948-49. 18. The Chilopoda of the Lund University and California Academy of Science Expeditions - Acta Universitatis Lundensis , N.S. Avd. 2 51(5): 1-61, see p. 32.

Notes: Substitute name for Araucania Chamberlin, 1955, which is invalid as junior homonym of Araucania Pate, 1947 (Hymenoptera: Sapygidae).