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 Opisthemega insulare Meinert, 1886 is Theatops spinicaudus (Wood, 1862)

Opisthemega insulare Meinert, 1886

Original description: Meinert F. (1886). Myriapoda Musei Cantabrigiensis. Part I. Chilopoda - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , 23: 161-233, see p. 209.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Opisthemega Wood, 1862

Type locality: Hawaii

Synonymy: Kraepelin K. (1903). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten , (2)20: 1-276, see p. 65.