NOMEN: Oligostigmata Silvestri 1895 [F. Silvestri. Chilopodi e Diplopodi della Papuasia. – Annali del museo Civico di Storia Naturele Giacomo Doria, Genova, 1895: 619-659]
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Silvestri
1895):
Scolopendridae 
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Scolopendra/fg (sine Geophilus)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Scolopendra, Scolopendridae, Scolopendrini, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendrida
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position of Oligostigmata:
| modern phylogenetic classification: |
other classifications: |
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| Chilopoda Inaequipedes (Scutigera/fg) Aequipedes Ungulipalpi (Liptobius/fg) Craterostigmophora (Craterostigmus/fg) Epimorpha Oligostigmata (Scolopendra/fg) Pantastigmata (Geophilus/fg) |
Chilopoda Inaequipedes (Scutigera/fg) Aequipedes Horizopoda Ungulipalpi (Liptobius/fg) Oligostigmata (Scolopendra/fg) Pantastigmata (Geophilus/fg) |
Chilopoda Anamorpha Inaequipedes (Scutigera/fg) Ungulipalpi (Liptobius/fg) Epimorpha Oligostigmata (Scolopendra/fg) Pantastigmata (Geophilus/fg) |