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 insularis (Lucas,1863)

Original description: Lucas H. (1863). Myriapodes. In: L. Maillard (ed.), Notes sur l'Ile de La Réunion (Bourbon) - Dentu, Paris, 39-40, see p. 39.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Geophilus Leach, 1814

Type locality: Ile de la Réunion

Subspecies:

• Lamnonyx insularis orientalis Silvestri, 1919

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Lewis J.G.E. (1996). Further records of scolopendromorph and geophilomorph centipedes from the Arabian Peninsula with a note by Dr. E. H. Eason on Lithobius erythrocephalus cronebergii Sseliwanoff - Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 15: 137-156 b, see p. 149.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Réunion

Notes: Records outside the Western part of the Indian Ocean need critical evaluation.