Mecistocephalus tahitiensis Wood, 1862
Mecistocephalus tahitiensis 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. 43.
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Mecistocephalidae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843
Type locality: Tahiti
Synonym(s):
Subspecies:
Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1929). Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 52: 1-388, see p. 130.
Distribution:
-- within Asia-Tropical: Papua New Guinea
-- within Pacific: Fiji; Samoa
