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 Scolopendra californica Humbert & Saussure, 1870 is Scolopendra polymorpha (Wood, 1861)

Scolopendra californica Humbert & Saussure, 1870

Original description: Humbert A., Saussure H. de (1870). Myriapoda nova Americana. Series 2 - Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 22: 202-205, see p. 203.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758

Type locality: USA, California

Synonymy: Shelley R.M. (2002). A synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda) - Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir, 5: viii+108 pp., see p. 20.