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.

Scolopendra puncticeps 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. 14.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758

Type locality: not stated

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1930). Myriopoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 54: 1-308, see p. 51.

Notes: Junior primary homonym of Scolopendra puncticeps Gervais, 1847, which is a junior synonym of Cormocephalus westwoodi (Newport, 1845). A synonym of Scolopendra angulata Newport, 1844 according to Brölemann (1909 - Os Myriapodos do Brazil: 17).