Scolopendra cristata Newport, 1844



The valid name for Scolopendra cristata Newport, 1844 is Scolopendra viridicornis (Newport, 1844)

Scolopendra cristata Newport, 1844

Original description: Newport G. (1844). A list of the species of Myriapoda order Chilopoda contained in the cabinets of the British Museum with synoptic descriptions of forty-seven new species - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13: 94-101, see p. 98.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758

Type locality: Brazil

Synonymy: Brölemann H.W. (1909). Os myriapodos do Brazil - Catalogos da Fauna Brazileira, 2 : 1-94, see p. 29.