Otostigmus (Otostigmus) politus pigmentatus Attems, 1930


The valid name for Otostigmus (Otostigmus) politus pigmentatus Attems, 1930 is Otostigmus angusticeps Pocock, 1898)

Otostigmus (Otostigmus) politus pigmentatus Attems, 1930.

Original description: Attems C. (1930). Myriopoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 54: 1-308, see p. 150.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Original rank:

Family: Scolopendridae

Original genus: Otostigmus Porat, 1876.

Type locality: Papua New Guinea, Sepik River (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss); Irian Jaya, Merauke

Synonymy: Lewis J.G.E. (2001).The scolopendrid centipedes in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) - Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 13: 5-51, see p. 35.

Distribution:

-- within Antarctic: Falkland Is.

Notes: The type localities were originally considered in Australia erroneously