NOMINA CIRCUMSCRIBENTIA INSECTORUM

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NOMEN: Onychophora Grube 1853 [A.E. Grube. Ueber de Bau von Peripatus Edwardsii. Muller, Archiv, 1853: 322-359]

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Grube 1853): ?  

OLDER CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Polypoda Guilding 1826 (non Lamarck 1801; nec Brandt 1841)
= Malacopoda Blainville

= Malacopodes

JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Prototracheata Schimkewitsch 1890 (non Protracheata Haeckel 1866)
= Monognatha Lameere 1895
= Monognatha Monoprostomera Lankester 1904
= Protarthropoda Lankester 1904
= Tracheoidea Krausse & Wolff 1919 

NON-UNIVOCAL CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM:
= Euonychophora Hutchinson 1930

NON-UNIVOCAL CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM (including Ontonychophora):
= Udeonychophora Poinar 2000

NON-UNIVOCAL CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM (including Archonychophora + Protonychophora + Scleronychophora + Paronychophora):
= Lobopodia Hou & Bergström 1995
= Polylobopoda Waggoner 1996

TYPIFIED NAME(S): Peripatus/fg1 [f: Peripatiens Audouin & Milne-Edwards 1833; g: Peripatus Guilding 1826, typus Peripatus juliformis Guilding 1826]
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Peripatus (sensu Guilding 1826), Peripati, Peripatida, Peripatidae, Peripatidea, Peripatii, Peripatoidea

MODERN STATUS: generally accepted, the valid (while not the oldest) name of a holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position of Onychophora:

COMMENT. This taxon is often wrongly called Protracheata; actually the name Protracheata Haeckel 1866 was originally given to a hypothetic extinct taxon, which did not include Onychophora.