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 Scutigera vesuviana Costa,1839 is Lithobius forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Scutigera vesuviana Costa,1839

Original description: Costa O. G. (1839). Fauna vesuviana ossia descrizione degl'insetti che vivono ne' fumajoli del cratere del Vesuvio - Atti dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Napoli, 4 (zool.): 21-53, see p. 52.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scutigera Lamarck, 1801

Type locality: Italy: Vesuvio

Synonymy: Zapparoli M. (2006). On the identity of Scutigera vesuviana [O.G. Costa], 1839 (Chilopoda) - Fragmenta entomologica, 38(2): 157-162, see p. 160.

Notes: Probable but uncertain synonymy.