Scolopendra gigas Leach, 1815
The valid name for Scolopendra gigas Leach, 1815 is Scolopendra gigantea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scolopendra gigas Leach, 1815
Original description: Leach W.E. (1815). A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta; with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders, &c. and descriptions of several new genera and species - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 11: 306-400, see p. 383.
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Family: Scolopendridae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758
Type locality: Not designated
Synonymy: Kraepelin K. (1903). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten , (2)20: 1-276, see p. 233.
