Cermatia floridana Newport,1845
The valid name for Cermatia floridana Newport,1845 is Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cermatia floridana Newport,1845
Original description: Newport G. (1845). Monograph of the class Myriapoda order Chilopoda; with observations on the general arrangement of the Articulata - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 19: 265-302, 349-439, see p. 353.
Order: Scutigeromorpha
Family: Scutigeridae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Cermatia Illiger, 1807
Type locality: Florida
Synonymy: Wood H.C.jr. (1862). On the Chilopoda of North America with a catalogue of all the specimens in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution - Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , (2)5(1): 5-52, see p. 10.
Notes: Newport mentioned Cermatia coleoptrata var. Floridensis in a publication in 1844. This name should be considered a nomen nudum since it was not supplemented with a description of the species, and is therefore unavailable
