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 waikaneus Chamberlin, 1953

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1953). Geophiloid chilopods of the Hawaiian and other Oceanic islands of the Pacific - Great Basin Naturalist , 13: 75-85, see p. 81.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: Waikane

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. 17.

Distribution:

-- within Pacific: Hawaiian Is.