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.

The valid name for Mecistocephalus okinawaensis Takakuwa, 1939 is Mecistocephalus pauroporus (Takakuwa, 1936)

Mecistocephalus okinawaensis Takakuwa, 1939

Original description: Takakuwa Y. (1939). Chilopoden aus Ryukyu Inseln - Biogeographica , 3: 123-26, see p. 124.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: Izumi

Synonymy: Uliana M., Bonato L., Minelli A. (2006). [Mecistocephalidae of Japan and Taiwan] - Zootaxa, in progress (2), see p. .

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Temperate: Nansei-shoto