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 uncifer (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. 72.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Lamnonyx Cook, 1896

Type locality: Moroka

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1929). Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 52: 1-388, see p. 145.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Tropical: Papua New Guinea

Notes: It was cited erroneously as 'Lamnonyx crucifer' by Chamberlin (1920 - Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 64: 65)