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 benoiti Dobroruka, 1958

Original description: Dobroruka L.J. (1958). Chilopoden des Belgischen Congo gesammelt von Prof. Dr. Ing. Herbert Franz - Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 58: 54-61, see p. 57.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: Tal des Isalowe, Yangambi

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Dobroruka L.J. (1958). Chilopoden des Belgischen Congo gesammelt von Prof. Dr. Ing. Herbert Franz - Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 58: 54-61, see p. 57.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Congo; Kenya