Geophilus Leach, 1814

Jonishi, Taro & Nakano, Takafumi, 2022, Correct Authorships, Synonymies, and Remarks on the Type Series of Fourteen Names of Centipedes Introduced by Yoshioki Takakuwa in 1934 and Mecistocephalus takakuwai (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha and Scolopendromorpha), Species Diversity 27 (1), pp. 71-81 : 74

Genus Geophilus Leach, 1814 Geophilus monoporus Takakuwa, 1934e [Japanese name: Hitoana-tsuchimukade]

Geophilus monoporus Takakuwa, 1934e: 384–385 , figs 3, 4 (available name).

Geophilus monoporus Takakuwa, 1934f: 403–404 , figs 9–11 (invalidly described as new).

Geophilus monoporus (without attribution): Takakuwa 1940a: 103, fig. 109; Bonato et al. 2006: 419.

Mesogeophilus monoporus: Attems 1947: 124 (also as Geophilus monoporus on p. 116) [ Takakuwa (1934f) cited as original description]; Shinohara et al. 2015: 894, 907, fig. 10 (894) (no attribution).

Type series. No types were designated in the original description ( Takakuwa 1934e), and the composition of the original material was not indicated. According to Takashima (1954, 1955), the type specimen(s) of this species might have been lost during World War II.

Type locality. Choshi, Chiba Prefecture [as Tyosi (Tiba) in Takakuwa (1934f)], Honshu, Japan .

Japanese name. Takakuwa introduced a Japanese name, “Hitoana-tsuchimukade”, for G. monoporus ( Takakuwa 1934e, 1937, 1938b, 1939a, 1940a). After Attems (1947) moved the species to Mesogeophilus , “Hoso-tsuchimukade” has been used as the Japanese name for this species as well as the genus ( Murakami 1993; Shinohara et al. 2015). Because Bonato et al. (2006) have again classified it under Geophilus , we propose the resurrection of “Hitoana-tsuchimukade” as the most appropriate Japanese name for G. monoporus .

Remarks. In ChiloBase 2.0 (Bonato et al. 2016m) the authorship of this species is correctly cited as Takakuwa (1934e). Takakuwa (1938a) cited Takakuwa (1934f), stating “Trans. Nat. His. Soc. Sapporo, Vol. 8, pt. 4, 1934”, but Takakuwa (1934f) was actually published in Volume 13, Issue No. 4 of Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society.