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The valid name for Scutigera birmanica Pocock,1891 is Thereuopoda longicornis (Fabricius, 1793)

Scutigera birmanica Pocock,1891

Original description: Pocock R.I. (1891). On the Myriopoda of Burma. Part 2. Report upon the Chilopoda collected by Sig. L. Fea and Mr. E. W. Oates - Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, (ser.2)10: 401-432, see p. 403.

Order: Scutigeromorpha

Family: Scutigeridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scutigera Lamarck, 1801

Type locality: Burma: Pegu, Rangoon, Palon, S. Tenasserim, Bhamò

Synonymy: Würmli M. (1979). Taxonomic problems in the genus Thereuopoda (Chilopoda Scutigeromorpha: Scutigeridae): the role of postmaturational moultings. In: Camatini M. (ed.), Myriapod biology - Academy Press London, 39-48, see p. 46.