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 Bothropolys oahuanus Chamberlin, 1920 is Bothropolys maluhianus (Attems, 1914)

Bothropolys oahuanus Chamberlin, 1920

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1920). The Myriopoda of the Australian region - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 64: 1-269, see p. 78.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Bothropolys Wood, 1862

Type locality: Hawaii Is.

Synonymy: Eason E.H. (1977). A redescription of the type specimens of Lithobius hawaiiensis Silvestri 1904 with a note on the Hawaiian Lithobiidae (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) - Journal of Natural History , 11: 485-492, see p. 491.

Notes: Chamberlin (1920 - Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., 64: 78) gave this name for the specimens of Lithobius asperatus published by Attems (1903 - Zool. Jarb. syst., 18: 92) from Hawaii Is.