ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
Bonato L., Chagas Junior 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).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

The valid name for Heterostoma Newport, 1844 is Ethmostigmus Pocock, 1898

Heterostoma Newport, 1844

Original description: Newport G. (1844). [Conclusion of the monograph on the Myriapoda Chilopoda"] - Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 1: 191-197, see p. 193.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Scolopendra trigonopodus Leach, 1817 - by subsequent designation

Fixed by: Pocock R.I. (1898). List of the Arachnida and "Myriopoda" obtained in Funafuti by Prof. W.J. Sollas ad Mr. Stanley Gardiner, and in Rotuma by Mr. Stanley Gardiner - Annals and Magazine of Natural History , (7)1: 321-329, see p. 230.

Synonymy: Pocock R.I. (1898). List of the Arachnida and "Myriopoda" obtained in Funafuti by Prof. W.J. Sollas ad Mr. Stanley Gardiner, and in Rotuma by Mr. Stanley Gardiner - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (7)1: 321-329, see p. 327.

Notes: Junior homonym of Heterostoma De Filippi, 1837 (Platyhelminthes) and Heterostoma Hartmann, 1843 (Mollusca)