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 superior (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. 63.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Lamnonyx Cook, 1896

Type locality: Nechal, W. Ghats, Taloshi, Koyna Valley, E. side of Koyna Valley and Helvak, Koyna Valley, Satara dist., Palgad, Ratnagiri dist.

Synonym(s):

• Mecistocephalus ethodon Chamberlin, 1959

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. 29.