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.

Scolopendra japonica L. Koch, 1878

Original description: Koch L. (1878). Japanesische Arachniden und Myriapoden - Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 27: 785-795, see p. 790.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758

Type locality: Japan

Synonym(s):

• Otostigmus politoides Attems,1953
• Otostigmus puncticeps Attems, 1953

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Kronmüller C. (2012). Review of the subspecies of Scolopendra subspinipes Leach, 1815 with the new description of the South Chinese member of the genus Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758 named Scolopendra hainanum spec. nov. (Myriapoda, Chilopoda, Scolopendridae) - Spixiana, 35 (1): 19-27, see p. .