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 Scolopocryptops mexicana Humbert & Saussure, 1869 is Scolopocryptops ferrugineus (Linnaeus, 1767)

Scolopocryptops mexicana Humbert & Saussure, 1869

Original description: Humbert A., Saussure E. de (1869). Myriapoda nova Americana - Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée, (2)21: 149-159, see p. 158.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopocryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopocryptops Newport, 1844

Type locality: Mexico altior

Synonymy: Attems C. (1930). Myriopoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 54: 1-308, see p. 261.