Cryptomera nemura Rafinesque,1820



The valid name for Cryptomera nemura Rafinesque,1820 is Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cryptomera nemura Rafinesque,1820

Original description: Rafinesque C.S. (1820). Annals of nature, or annual synopsis of new genera and species of animals, plants etc. discovered in North America. First annual number for 1820 - Lexington, pp. 20, see p. 8.

Order: Scutigeromorpha

Family: Scutigeridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cryptomera Rafinesque, 1820

Type locality: in cellars of Baltimore

Synonymy: Hoffman R.L., Crabill R.E. (1953). C. S. Rafinesque as the real father of American myriapodology: an analysis of his hitherto unrecognized species - Florida Entomologist , 36: 73-82, see p. 76.