ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
Bonato L., Chagas Junior A.,
Edgecombe G.D. Lewis J.G.E.,
Minelli A., Pereira L.A.,
Shelley R.M., Stoev P.,
Zapparoli M. (2016)
ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue
of Centipedes (Chilopoda).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

Mecistocephalus angusticeps (Ribaut,1914)

Original description: Ribaut H. (1914). Myriapodes. I. Chilopoda - Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911-1912). Résultats Scientifiques. Libr. A. Schulz, Paris., 3-35, see p. 23.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Lamnonyx Cook, 1896

Type locality: Shimoni cave

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bonato L., Minelli A. (2010). The geophilomorph centipedes of the Seychelles islands (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha). - In: Gerlach J. & Marusik Y. (eds), Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, 360-375, see p. 363.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Kenya; Seychelles