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Issue: Vol. 3847 No. 3: 8 Aug. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-08-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.2
Page range: 333–358
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 2

An annotated checklist of Lithobiomorpha of China

Scientific Research Office, Hengshui University, Hengshui, Hebei 053000, P. R. China
Department of Life Sciences, Hengshui University, Hengshui, Hebei 053000, P. R. China
Department of Life Sciences, Hengshui University, Hengshui, Hebei 053000, P. R. China
Department of Life Sciences, Hengshui University, Hengshui, Hebei 053000, P. R. China
Department of Life Sciences, Hengshui University, Hengshui, Hebei 053000, P. R. China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, P. R. China
checklist Lithobiomorpha Chilopoda China

Abstract

The lithobiomorph centipede fauna of China is listed here based on literature data. A total of 68 species in 15 genera/subgenera in 2 families, Henicopidae and Lithobiidae, has been recorded from China. Three genera and forty-four species are known only from China, including the monotypic genera Pterygotergum and Hedinobius. The original descriptions of 16 nominal species were based on specimens of single sex only and 13 nominal species of Lithobius have never been allocated to a subgenus. Lithobius (Lithobius) zhui Pei, Ma, Shi, Wu & Gai, 2011 is moved to subgenus Lithobius (Ezembius). Distribution data for each species is provided here to promote further studies on the Lithobiomorpha fauna of China.