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 Opisthemega lusitanum Verhoeff, 1896 is Theatops erythrocephalus (C. L. Koch, 1847)

Opisthemega lusitanum Verhoeff, 1896

Original description: Verhoeff C. (1896). Zur Phylogenie der Myriapodenordnungen - Zoologischer Anzeiger , 19: 153-159, see p. 78.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Opisthemega Wood, 1862

Type locality: Portugal

Synonymy: Kraepelin K. (1903). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten , (2)20: 1-276, see p. 66.