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 spissus 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. 15.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: Oahu or Kauai

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bonato L., Foddai D., Minelli A. (2004). The centipede order Geophilomorpha in the Hawaiian Islands (Chilopoda) - Bishop Museum Occasional Papers , 78: 13-32, see p. 15.

Distribution:

-- within Pacific: Hawaiian Is.

Notes: Records from outside Hawaii Islands have been based on misidentification.