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).
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Mecistocephalus longichilatus Takakuwa, 1936

Original description: Takakuwa Y. (1936). Eine neue interessante Mecistocephalus-Art aus Formosa - Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 26: 215-216, see p. 215.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: Karenko, Taito, Tiwa, Giran

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. 90.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Temperate: Taiwan

Notes: It was cited erroneously as 'Mecistocephalus longicapillatus' by Takakuwa (1938 - Annot. Zool. Japon. 17: 353)