Theatops spinicaudus Wood, 1862
Theatops spinicaudus Wood, 1862
Original description: Wood H.C.jr. (1862). On the Chilopoda of North America with a catalogue of all the specimens in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution - Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , (2)5(1): 5-52, see p. 36.
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Family: Plutoniumidae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Theatops Newport, 1844
Type locality: Illinois, Cook Co., Chicago
Synonym(s):
Last taxonomic scrutiny: Shelley R.M. (1997). The holarctic centipede subfamily Plutoniuminae (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) (Nomen correctum ex subfamily Plutoniinae Bollman, 1893) - Brimleyana, 24: 51-113, see p. 87.
Distribution:
-- within Northern America: Alabama; Arkansas; Illinois; Iowa; Kansas; Missouri; North Carolina; Oklahoma; Pennsylvania; South Carolina; Tennessee; Virginia
-- within Pacific: Hawaiian Is.
Notes: Records from the Hawaii Islands are most probably erroneous (Shelley, 1991, Bishop Mus. Occ. Paps., 31:182-184)
