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

摘要

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 However, many included names are now out of date.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. Currendy 24 remain as valid names in the same genus, 17 have been transferred to other genera and 11 have been treated as synonyms.