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 capillatus Takakuwa, 1935

Original description: Takakuwa Y. (1935). Über neue Chilopoden aus Japan - Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 25: 339-342, see p. 339.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: Jaluit

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Takakuwa Y. (1940). Geophilomorpha. In: Okada et al. (eds.), Fauna Nipponica. Vol. 9, fasc. 8(1) - Sanseido, Tokyo , 1-156, see p. 57.

Distribution:

-- within Pacific: Marshall Is.