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 lifuensis Pocock, 1899

Original description: Pocock R.I. (1899). The expedition to Sokotra. Descriptions of the new species of scorpions centipedes and millipedes - Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums , 2: 7-9, see p. 63.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: Lifu

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Ribaut H. (1923). Chilopodes de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des Îles Loyalty. In: Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (eds.), Nova Caledonia, Recherches Scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux Îles Loyalty - C.W. Kreidel's Verlag, Berlin, Weisbaden, 3(1): 1-79, see p. 63.

Distribution:

-- within Pacific: New Caledonia

Notes: The species was also called as 'Lamnonyx lifuensis' in the original description (Pocock 1899 - Zool. Res. N. Britain, N. Guinea, Loyalty Is. 1: ***)