Latzelia

Latzelia is an extinct genus of scutigeromorph centipedes, and the type and only genus of the family Latzeliidae.^[1] It existed during the Carboniferous in what is now Illinois (found in Mazon Creek fossil beds).^[1] It was described by Samuel Hubbard Scudder in 1890, and the type species, and only known species, is Latzelia primordialis.^[2] The genus name honors Austrian zoologist Robert Latzel.^[3]

Latzelia
Holotype specimen of L. primordialis (USNM 38003), National Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Scutigeromorpha
Family:	†Latzeliidae
Genus:	†Latzelia Scudder, 1890
Type species
Latzelia primordialis Scudder, 1890

1890 illustration by J. H. Emerton

This centipede genus should not be confused with two invalid names applied to millipede genera: the first proposed Bollman in 1893 for a glomeridan species now in the genus Glomeridella, and the second by Verhoeff in 1895 for a genus of chordeumatidans now known as Verhoeffia.^[3]