Arctogeophilus quadratus (Wood,1867)
Arctogeophilus quadratus (Wood,1867)
Original description: Wood H.C. (1867). Notes on a collection of Californian Myriapoda with the descriptions of a new eastern species - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, [1867]: 127-130, see p. 128.
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Geophilidae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Mecistocephalus Newport, 1843
Type locality: Los Gatos, Coast Mountains
Last taxonomic scrutiny: Wood H.C. (1867). Notes on a collection of Californian Myriapoda with the descriptions of a new eastern species - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, [1867]: 127-130, see p. 128.
Notes: Considered a junior synonym of Arctogeophilus melanonotus (Wood, 1862) by Chamberlin (1912 - Pomona Journal of Entomology, 4(1): 661), but actually different from this latter species according to the original description. Firstly assigned to the genus Arctogeophilus Attems, 1909 by Kevan (1983 - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 61: 2946).
