Centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda) of Biologia Centrali-Americana: Current status of the names

By

Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011

Original Publication

International Journal of Myriapodology

Volume

5

Pages

55-62

Subjects

Central America , Checklist , Chilopoda , Mexico , Reginald Innes Pocock , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Leiden Brill [2008]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/ijm.5.1865

 

Abstract

For the last 100 years, Biologia Centrali-Americana has been an important source of information for many groups of Mexican and Central American arthropods and remains a keystone for taxonomic work. However, many included names are now out of date. I provide an updated list of names of Chilopoda as cited in Vol. 14 of Biologia Centrali-Americana to use as a complement to that work. The Chilopoda of Biologia Centrali-Americana included 52 names for 51 species and 1 subspecies. Of those, 18 names (35%) were described as new in Pocock´s work. Currently 24 remain as valid names in the same genus, 17 have been transferred to other genera and 11 have been treated as synonyms.