Bothropolys migrans Chamberlin, 1930



The valid name for Bothropolys migrans Chamberlin, 1930 is Bothropolys rugosus (Meinert, 1872)

Bothropolys migrans Chamberlin, 1930

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1930). On some chilopods immigrants at the Hawaii - Pan-Pacific Entomologist , 7: 65-69, see p. 69.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Bothropolys Wood, 1862

Type locality: Hawaii Is., from China

Synonymy: Eason E.H. (1974). The type specimens and identity of the species described in the genus Lithobius by F. Meinert and now preserved in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen University (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London , 55: 1-52, see p. 4.

Notes: Non Nipponobius migrans Chamberlin, 1929. Probable but uncertain synonymy. Deleted form the Hawaiian fauna (Zappaoli & Shelley, 2000 - Bishop Museum Occ. Pap., 63: 47).