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 pallidus (Silvestri,1919)

Original description: Silvestri F. (1919). Contributions to a knowledge of the Chilopoda Geophilomorpha of India - Record of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 16: 45-107, see p. 65.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: subspecies

Original genus: Lamnonyx Cook, 1896

Type locality: Parambiculam, Cochin State, Base of hills, Chakardharpur, Singbhoom dist., Chota Nagpur, Kalka, Simla, Purulia, Manhum dist., Chota Nagpur, Dinapore, Bihar, Medha, Yenna Valley, Satara dist., Bababudin Hills, Mysore, Khondmal Hills, Angul dist., interior of Orissa

Synonym(s):

• Pauroptyx himalayanus Chamberlin, 1920

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bonato L., Minelli A. (2004). The centipede genus Mecistocephalus Newport 1843 in the Indian Peninsula (Chilopoda Geophilomorpha Mecistocephalidae) - Tropical Zoology, 17: 15-63, see p. 25.

Notes: A record from Indochinese Peninsula was based on a misinterpretation of an Indian locality