Scolopendra (Otostigmus) spinicaudus spinicaudus Newport, 1844
Scolopendra (Otostigmus) spinicaudus spinicaudus Newport, 1844.
Original description: Newport G. (1844). A list of the species of Myriapoda order Chilopoda contained in the cabinets of the British Museum with synoptic descriptions of forty-seven new species - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13: 94-101, see p. 98.
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Original rank: species
Family: Scolopendridae
Original genus: Otostigmus Porat, 1876.
Type locality: Libya, Tripoli
Last taxonomic scrutiny: Lewis J.G.E. (2000).Variation in three centipede species of the genus Otostigmus and its bearing on species discrimination (Chilopoda; Scolopendromorpha; Scolopendridae) - Journal of Natural History , 34: 433-448, see p. 434.