Mecistocephalus rubriceps Wood, 1862
Mecistocephalus rubriceps Wood, 1862
Original description: Wood H.C.jr. (1862). On the Chilopoda of North America with a catalogue of all the specimens in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution - Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , (2)5(1): 5-52, see p. 42.
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Mecistocephalidae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843
Type locality: Bonin Islands
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. 67.
Distribution:
-- within Asia-Temperate: Ogasawara-shoto; Taiwan
-- within Asia-Tropical: Laos; Philippines; Vietnam
