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.

The valid name for Mecistocephalus punctilabium Newport,1843 is Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835)

Mecistocephalus punctilabium Newport,1843

Original description: Newport G. (1843). On some new genera of the class Myriapoda - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London , 10 (1842): 177-181, see p. 179.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843

Type locality: "in Insulâ Corcyrâ" = Korfu (Greece) (Newport, 1845)

Synonymy: Zapparoli M. (1994). Note tassonomiche e faunistiche su Chilopodi della Grecia (Chilopoda) - Fragmenta entomologica, 26: 11-66, see p. 21.