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 frigidus Verhoeff, 1942 is Otostigmus politus (Karsch, 1881)

Otostigmus frigidus Verhoeff, 1942

Original description: Verhoeff K.W. (1942). Otostigmen der Mandschurei - Zoologischer Anzeiger , 138: 181-188, see p. 186.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank:

Original genus: Otostigmus Porat, 1876

Type locality: China, Manchuria

Synonymy: Lewis J.G.E. (2003). On the identity of the various taxa that have been assigned to Otostigmus (O.) politus Karsch, 1881 and forms related thereto (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) - Arthropoda Selecta, 12: 193-206, see p. 200.