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 furculigera (Verhoeff,1925)

Original description: Verhoeff K.W. (1925). Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 39. Chilopoda - Arkiv för Zoologi, 17A (3): 1-62, see p. 47.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: subspecies

Original genus: Lamnonyx Cook, 1896

Type locality: Cooktown

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bonato et alii [in progress] (2006). [Catalog of Mecistocephalidae] - Zootaxa, ***.

Notes: A record from Palestina (Verhoeff, 1925 - Ark. Zool. Stockholm 17: 48) is obviously due to a misidentification