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On the True Identity of Geophilus huronicus Meinert and the Presence of Geophilus longicornis Leach in North America (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Ralph E. Crabill Jr.
Ralph E. Crabill Jr.
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Cornell University
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In 1886 Meinert described a new centipede from New England which he called Geophilus huronicus. This centipede, characterized at some length and with considerable accuracy in the original description. is peculiar in that it is rather unlike any other known North American member of the genus. Perhaps for that reason, as well as because he had never seen huronicus, Attems placed it in his long roster of questionable New World species.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 83 , Issue 11 , November 1951 , pp. 314 - 315
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1951

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1 Meinert, : Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., XXIII, p. 220, (1886).Google Scholar

2 Bollman, , (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XI, p. 347, (1888))Google Scholar, pointed out that his new species Geophilus smithii, was much like Meinert's huronicus. Unfortunately it is impossible to determine exactly what Bollman based his new name upon; the original description certainly leaves much to the imagination, and the types at the U.S. National Museum cannot be located at the present time. It is possible that he based smithii upon Geophilus mordax Meinert.

3. Attems: Das Tierreich, lief. 52 (1929).

4. Palmén, : Annales Zoologicae Societatis Zoologicae Botanicae Fennicae Tom. 13, no. 4, p. 13, (1949).Google Scholar

5. Crabill, , Canad. Ent., LXXXII, p. 101, (1950).Google Scholar

6. Attems, : Ann. S. African Mus., XXVI, p. 157, (1928).Google Scholar