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 pulcher Kishida, 1928

Original description: Kishida K. (1928). Chilopoda. In: Animals of Mt. Fuji. Ch. 6 - Kokinshoin, Tokio, 290-303.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: ***

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. 1.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Temperate: Honshu

Notes: The identity with Dicellophilus latifrons was suspected by Takakuwa (1940 - Fauna Nippon. 9: 1)