Scolopendra occidentalis, Meinert, 1886: 197

Shelley, Rowland M., 2006, A chronological catalog of the New World species of Scolopendra L., 1758 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae), Zootaxa 1253 (1), pp. 1-50 : 22

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1253.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15634904

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scientific name

Scolopendra occidentalis
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occidentalis Meinert, 1886:197 View in CoL (non Linnaeus, 1758).

Holotype ( MCZ); type locality: west coast of Mexico .

Original rank: species. Current rank and status: synonym of S. viridis maya Saussure, 1860 ( Kraepelin 1903, Attems 1930, Bücherl 1942 a).

Remarks : Shelley (2002) could not evaluate occidentalis and included it among eight forms occurring south of the US that conform to some degree to S. viridis Say, 1821 . Consequently , the status as a synonym of S. v. maya stands, but the name is also a junior primary homonym of S. occidentalis L., 1758, which is a geophilomorph (see earlier account). The name was omitted by Bücherl (1974).

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