Lucio Bonato

Lucio Bonato, Italian myriapodologist.

Università di Padova, Padova, Italy

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Bonato, L., Foddai, D. & Minelli, A. 2002 A new mecistocephalid centipede from Ryukyu Islands and a revisitation of ‘Taiwanella’ (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Mecistocephalidae). Zootaxa 86: 1–12. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

Foddai, D., Bonato, L., Pereira, L.A. & Minelli, A. 2003. Phylogeny and systematics of the Arrupinae (Chilopoda Geophilomorpha Mecistocephalidae) with the description of a new dwarfed species. Journal of natural history 37(10): 1247–1267. DOI: 10.1080/00222930210121672 Reference page.

Bonato, L., Foddai, D., Minelli, A. & Shelley, R.M. 2004. The centipede order Geophilomorpha in the Hawaiian Islands (Chilopoda). Bernice P. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 78: 13–32. Reference page.

Bonato, L., Barber, A. & Minelli, A. 2006. The European centipedes hitherto referred to Eurygeophilus, Mesogeophilus, and Chalandea (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha): taxonomy, distribution, and geographical variation in segment number. Journal of Natural History 40: 415–438. Reference page.

Bonato, L., Pereira, L.A. & Minelli, A. 2007. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the centipede genera Chomatobius, Ityphilus, Hapleurytion, Plateurytion, and Steneurytion (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha). Zootaxa 1485: 1–12. Reference page.

Bonato, L., Zapparoli, M. & Minelli, A. 2008. Morphology, taxonomy and distribution of Diphyonyx gen. n., a lineage of geophilid centipedes with unusually shaped claws (Chilopoda: Geophilidae). European Journal of Entomology 105: 343–354. Reference page.

Bonato, L. & Minelli, A. 2010. The geophilomorph centipedes of the Seychelles (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha). Phelsuma, 18: 9–38. PDF Reference page.

Bonato, L., Iorio, E. & Minelli, A. 2011. The centipede genus Clinopodes C.L. Koch, 1847 (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae): reassessment of species diversity and distribution, with a new species from the Maritime Alps (France). Zoosystema 33(2): 175–205. DOI: 10.5252/z2011n2a3 Reference page.

Bonato, L., Dányi, L., Socci, A.A. & Minelli, A. 2012. Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis. Zootaxa 3593: 1–39. Preview Reference page.

Chipman, A., Dor, N. & Bonato, L. 2013. Diversity and biogeography of Israeli geophilomorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha). Zootaxa 3652(2): 232–248. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3652.2.2 Reference page.
Simaiakis, S.M., Zapparoli, M., Minelli, A. & Bonato, L. 2013. The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species. Zootaxa 3647(2): 279–306. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3 Reference page.
Zarei, R., Rahimian, H. & Bonato, L. 2013. Morphology of a neglected large-sized species of Geophilus from Iran (Chilopoda: Geophilidae). Zootaxa 3736(5): 486–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3736.5.4 Reference page.

Bonato, L., Drago, L. & Murienne, J. 2014. Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence. Cladistics 30(5): 485–507. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12060 . Reference page.
Bonato, L. & Minelli, A. 2010. Chilopoda Geophilomorpha of Europe: a revised list of species, with taxonomic and nomenclatorial notes. Zootaxa 3770(1): 1–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3770.1.1 Reference page.

Stoev, P., Komerički, A., Edgecombe, G.D., Bonato, L. & Akkari, N. 2015. At the end of the rope: Geophilus hadesi sp. n. – the world’s deepest cave-dwelling centipede (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae). Zookeys 510: 95–114. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.510.9614 Full article. Reference page.

Bonato, L., Klarner, B., Widyastuti, R. & Scheu, S. 2016. The first geophilid centipedes from Malesia: a new genus with two new species from Sumatra (Chilopoda, Geophilidae). ZooKeys 605: 53–71. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.605.9338. Reference page.
Peretti, E. & Bonato, L. 2016. Geophilus pygmaeus (Chilopoda: Geophilidae): clarifying morphology, variation and geographic distribution. Zootaxa 4139(4): 499–514. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.4.3. Reference page.
Bonato, L., Chagas Jr., 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). Online. Reference page.
Bonato, L., Zapparoli, M., Drago, L. & Minelli, A. 2016. An unusually elongate endogeic centipede from Sardinia (Chilopoda: Geophilidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 231: 1–19. PDF Reference page.

Calvanese, V.C., Brescovit, A.D. & Bonato, L. 2019. Revision of the Neotropical species of Aphilodontinae (Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae), with eight new species and a first phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily. Zootaxa 4698(1): 1–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4698.1.1 Reference page.
Tran, B.T.T., Tran, H.T.X. & Bonato, L. 2019. A new soil centipede from South-East Asia with a unique arrangement of ventral glands, and a revised synopsis of Gonibregmatidae (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha). Zookeys 838: 111–132. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.838.33131 Reference page.

Zarei, R., Rahimian, H., Mirmonsef, H. & Bonato, L. 2020. Geophilomorpha from Alborz Mountains and a checklist of Chilopoda from Iran. Zootaxa 4780(1): 132–146. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.6 Reference page.

Dyachkov, Yu.V. & Bonato, L. 2022. Morphology and distribution of the Middle Asian centipede genus Krateraspis Lignau, 1929 (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Mecistocephalidae). Zookeys 1095ː 143–164. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1095.80806 Reference page.

Dyachkov, Yu.V. & Bonato, L. 2024. An updated synthesis of the Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) of Asian Russia. ZooKeys 1198: 17–54. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1198.119781 Reference page.
Iorio, E. & Bonato, L. 2024. A new species of the rare genus Endogeophilus from southern France, with a key to the European genera of Geophilidae s.l. (Chilopoda). ZooKeys 1213: 199–224. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1213.133171 Reference page.