Otostigmus puncticeps, Wood, 1861: 14

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 : 34

puncticeps Wood, 1861:14 .

Holotype: not known to exist, not present in ANSP; type locality: unknown .

Original rank: species. Current rank and status: species.

Remarks: Brölemann (1909) considered S. puncticeps to be a synonym of S. angulata Newport, 1844 , and Attems (1930) regarded it as an unrecognizable species. More importantly, however, it is a junior primary homonym of S. puncticeps Gervais, 1847 , from Australia, a synonym of Cormocephalus westwoodi ( Newport, 1844) . Scolopendra puncticeps was omitted by Bücherl (1974).