Mecistocephalus gigas Haase, 1887
Mecistocephalus gigas Haase, 1887
Original description: Haase E. (1887). Die Indisch-Australischen Myriopoden. Pt. I. Chilopoden - Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und. Anthropologisch- Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden, 5: 1-118, see p. 105.
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Mecistocephalidae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843
Type locality: auf oder nahe Nov. Guinea
Last taxonomic scrutiny: Silvestri F. (1919). Contributions to a knowledge of the Chilopoda Geophilomorpha of India - Record of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 16: 45-107, see p. 69.
Distribution:
-- within Asia-Tropical: Irian Jaya; Maluku; Papua New Guinea
Notes: The type locality was not stated more precisely.
