mysteca Humbert & Saussure, 1869:157 .
Syntypes (6 specimens, MHNG [P. Schwendinger, pers. comm.; examined]); type locality: Mexico without further specification .
Original rank: species. Current rank and status: synonym of S. polymorpha Wood, 1861 (Kraepelin 1903, Attems 1930, Bücherl 1942 a, Shelley 2002).
Remarks: Scolopendra mysteca was omitted by Bücherl (1974).