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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).
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Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 [subgenus of Lithobius Leach, 1814].

Original description: Verhoeff K.W. (1941). Asyanin zoogeografiyasi ve hayvan sistematige hakkinda. Asiatische Beiträge. II. Türkische Chilopoden - Istambul Universitesi Orman Fakültesi Dergisi, 6 B: 85-117, see p. 97..

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: genus

Type species:

Fixed by: Pei S., Ma H., Zapparoli M. & Zhu M. (2010). A review of the Chinese species of Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) - Zootaxa, 2631: 51-61, see p. 52.

Synonym(s):

• Polybothrus Latzel, 1880
• Lithobius (Polybothrus) Latzel, 1880

Synonymy: Eason E.H. (1981). On some new and little-known southern Asiatic species of Lithobiidae (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) - Entomologica Scandinavica , 12: 327-338, see p. 321.