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 Ethmostigmus australianus stechowi Verhoeff, 1941 is Ethmostigmus trigonopodus (Leach,1817)

Ethmostigmus australianus stechowi Verhoeff, 1941.

Original description: Verhoeff K.W. (1941). Aliquid novi ex Africa. IV. - Zoologischer Anzeiger , 135: 196-204, see p. 202.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Original rank:

Family: Scolopendridae

Original genus: Ethmostigmus Pocock, 1898.

Type locality: Tanzania, Mafia

Synonymy: Lewis J.G.E. (1968).On the identity of African centipedes Ethmostigmus australianus stechowi Verhoeff and Pseudocryptops walkeri Pocock (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) - Journal of Natural History , 2: 173-176, see p. 173.