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.

Bothropolys gigas Takakuwa, 1938

Original description: Takakuwa Y. (1938). Eine neue Japanische Bothropolys-Art - Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 28: 414-416, see p. 414.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Bothropolys Wood, 1862

Type locality: Japan: Katori (Tibaken)

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Takakuwa Y. (1941). Fauna Nipponica, vol.9, art. 8, n.3 - Sanseido, Tokyo, vol.? Pages?, see p. 39.