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 Scolopendra castaneiceps Wood, 1861 is Scolopendra heros (Girard, 1853)

Scolopendra castaneiceps Wood, 1861

Original description: Wood H.C.jr. (1861). Description of new species of Scolopendra in the collection of the Academy - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, [1861]: 10-15, see p. 11.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758

Type locality: USA, Texas

Synonymy: Kraepelin K. (1903). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten , (2)20: 1-276, see p. 237.