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Pleotarsobius

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Pleotarsobius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Lithobiomorpha
Family: Henicopidae
Genus: Pleotarsobius
Attems, 1909[1]
Type species
Lamyctes heterotarsus
Silvestri, 1904

Pleotarsobius is a monotypic genus of centipedes in the family Henicopidae. It was described in 1909 by Austrian myriapodologist Carl Attems. The sole species is Pleotarsobius heterotarsus (Silvestri, 1904).[1][2]

Distribution

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The species occurs in the Hawaiian Islands. The type locality is Kona, Hawaii.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Attems, C (1909). "Myriapoda". In Schulze, L (ed.). Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 mit Unterstützung der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Vol. 14. Jena: Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft. pp. 1–52 [12].
  2. ^ 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). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  3. ^ 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). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 16 April 2023.