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 punctifrons Newport, 1843

Original description: Newport G. (1843). On some new genera of the class Myriapoda - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London , 10 (1842): 177-181, see p. 179.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: "prope Maderaspatanam" = near Madras (India) (Newport, 1845)

Synonym(s):

• Mecistocephalus dekanius Verhoeff, 1939
• Lamnonyx insularis orientalis Silvestri, 1919

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. 20.

Notes: Records from outside Indian Peninsula have been most probably based on misidentifications and therefore need critical evaluation.