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 forcipata De Geer,1778 is Lithobius forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Scolopendra forcipata De Geer,1778

Original description: De Geer C. (1778). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. Tome VII - P. Hesselberg, Stockholm, VI+950 pp., see p. 557.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758

Type locality: unknown; probably France

Synonymy: Brolemann H.W. (1930). Éléments d'une faune des myriapodes de France. Chilopodes - Imprimérie Toulousaine, Toulouse, XIX+405 pp., see p. 257.