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).
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Mecistocephalus gulliveri Butler, 1876

Original description: Butler A.G. (1876). Preliminary notice of new species of Arachnida and Myriopoda from Rodriguez, collected by Messrs. George Gulliver and H. H. Slater - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 17(4): 439-446, see p. 446.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: Rodriguez Id

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Butler A.G. (1876). Preliminary notice of new species of Arachnida and Myriopoda from Rodriguez, collected by Messrs. George Gulliver and H. H. Slater - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 17(4): 439-446, see p. 446.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Rodrigues

Notes: The synonymy of this species with Mecistocephalus insularis or Mecistocephalus maxillaris or Mecistocephalus punctifrons has been either suspected or stated by different authors.