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 microporus Haase, 1887

Original description: Haase E. (1887). Die Indisch-Australischen Myriopoden. Pt. I. Chilopoden - Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und. Anthropologisch- Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden, 5: 1-118, see p. 106.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: Luzon

Synonym(s):

• Megethmus pluripes Chamberlin, 1920

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bonato L., Foddai D., Minelli A. (2001). Increase by duplication and loss of invariance of segment number in the centipede Mecistocephalus microporus (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Mecistocephalidae) - Italian Journal of Zoology , 68: 345-352, see p. 346.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Tropical: Philippines