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 Otostigmus (Otostigmus) multispinosus Takakuwa, 1937 is Otostigmus aculeatus (Haase, 1887)

Otostigmus (Otostigmus) multispinosus Takakuwa, 1937

Original description: Takakuwa Y. (1937). Otostigmus-Arten aus Japan - Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 27: 105-106, see p. 105.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank:

Original genus: Otostigmus Porat, 1876

Type locality: Taiwan (Formosa)

Synonymy: Chao J.-L. & Chang H.-W. (2008). Neotype designation for two centipedes, Scolopocryptops curtus (Takakuwa, 1939) and Cryptops nigropictus Takakuwa, 1936, and a review of species of Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda) in Taiwan - Coll. and Res., 21:1-15, see p. 6.