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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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Dicellophilus limatus (Wood,1862)

Original description: Wood H.C.jr. (1862). On the Chilopoda of North America with a catalogue of all the specimens in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution - Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , (2)5(1): 5-52, see p. 42.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: California

Synonym(s):

• Mecistocephalus breviceps Meinert, 1886

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Chamberlin R.V. (1912). The Chilopoda of California. III. - Pomona College Journal of Entomology , 4: 651-672, see p. 653.

Distribution:

-- within Northern America: California

Notes: It was cited erroneously as 'Mecistocephalus lineatus' by Saussure & Humbert (1872 - Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. Nat.Paris 6 (2): 206) and by Verhoeff (1925 - Klas. Ordn. Tierr. 5: 696), as 'Dicellophilus limitatus' by Kevan (1983 - Can. J. Zool. 61: 2945).