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.

Ethmostigmus pygomegas (Kohlrausch,1878)

Original description: Kohlrausch E. (1878). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Scolopendriden - Inaugural-Dissertation, Marburg, 27 pp., see p. 21.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Heterostoma Newport, 1844

Type locality: Himalaya

Synonym(s):

• Heterostoma rapax silhetense Haase, 1887
• Heterostoma rapax triste Haase, 1887

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Schileyko A.A., Stagl V. (2004). The collection of scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda) in the Natural History Museum in Vienna: a critical re-evaluation of former taxonomic identifications - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B, 105B: 67-137, see p. 116.