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.

Mesocanthus albus Meinert, 1870

Original description: Meinert F. (1870). Myriapoda Musaei Hauniensis. Bitrag til Myriapodernes morphologi og systematik. I. Geophile - Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, (3)7: 1-128, see p. 35.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Himantariidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mesocanthus Meinert, 1870

Type locality: Byen Tunis

Synonym(s):

• Polyechinogaster fossulatus Verhoeff,1899

Subspecies:

• Mesocanthus albus minutus Brölemann, 1904
• Mesocanthus albus albus Meinert, 1870

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1947). Neue Geophilomorpha des Wiener Museums - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums, Wien, 55: 50-149, see p. 82.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Tunisia