Abstract
The present paper reviews the centipede species of the genus Bothropolys Wood, 1862 (Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) of the Chinese fauna, including two species recorded from China for the first time. Diagnoses of the genus and the species, detailed account on species distribution and a key to the Chinese Bothropolys species are included.
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