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 japonicus Meinert, 1886

Original description: Meinert F. (1886). Myriapoda Musaei Hauniensis. III. Chilopoda - Saertryk af Videnskabelige Meddelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening j Kjobenhavn, 1884: 100-150, see p. 142.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: Nangasaki (Pallisen)

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Takakuwa Y. (1940). Geophilomorpha. In: Okada et al. (eds.), Fauna Nipponica. Vol. 9, fasc. 8(1) - Sanseido, Tokyo , 1-156, see p. 58.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Temperate: Taiwan