Mecistocephalus heteropus Humbert, 1865
Mecistocephalus heteropus Humbert, 1865
Original description: Humbert A. (1865). Essai sur les myriapodes de Ceylan - Mèmoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genéve, 18: 1-62, see p. 19.
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Mecistocephalidae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843
Type locality: Pundel-Oya
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. 54.
Distribution:
-- within Asia-Tropical: Sri Lanka