Otostigmus loriae nordicus Schileyko, 1995

Lewis, John G. E., 2014, A review of the orientalis group of the Otostigmus subgenus Otostigmus Porat, 1876 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae), Zootaxa 3889 (3), pp. 388-413 : 398

Otostigmus loriae nordicus Schileyko, 1995

O. loriae nordicus Schileyko, 1995 , 83, fig. 10. Vietnam. O. loriae nordicus: Schileyko, 1998 , 269.

O. loriae nordicus: Schileyko, 2001 , 430.

O. loriae nordicus: Schileyko, 2007 , 80. Vietnam. O. loriae nordicus: Tran et al., 2013 , 224 (checklist). Vietnam.

Diagnosis. With unusually wide coxosternal tooth-plates occupying the entire anterior margin of coxosternite, with 5–7 large teeth of which the three lateral are clearly isolated.

Distribution. Vietnam.

Remarks. The variation in O. loriae being such as it is, the only character distinguishing O. loriae nordicus is the unusually wide coxosternal tooth-plates. In his email dated 0 6.9.2012 Arkady Schileyko writes that he is convinced that these tooth-plates are not the result of a developmental abnormality and that more material is required to decide whether it ( loriae nordicus ) is a subspecies or a separate species. It is here retained pending further data. As O. loriae has here been synonymised under O. multidens , O.loriae nordicus becomes O. multidens nordicus comb. nov.