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 apator Chamberlin, 1920

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1920). New chilopods of the genus Mecistocephalus - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6: 328-334, see p. 333.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: Bua-Kraeng

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1929). Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 52: 1-388, see p. 137.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Tropical: Sulawesi

-- within Pacific: Micronesia Federated States; Northern Marianas; Palau