Mecistocephalus cephalotes Meinert, 1870

Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, Ecologica Montenegrina 53, pp. 8-24 : 13

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scientific name	Mecistocephalus cephalotes Meinert, 1870
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5. Mecistocephalus cephalotes Meinert, 1870 View in CoL

Type locality: Batavia ( Meinert 1870).

Fig. 5 View Figure 5 .

Mecistocephalus cephalotes Meinert 1870: 100 View in CoL .

Mecistocephalus (Mecistocephalus) cephalotes View in CoL – Attems 1929: 135; Loksa 1971: 110.

Mecistocephalus cephalotes View in CoL – Bonato & Minelli 2004: 47–48.

Previous records. Zabul: [Zab2] ( Loksa 1971) and Kunar: [Kun2], [Kun3] provinces.

Habitat records. Grotto ( Loksa 1971).

Distribution. Jawa, Vietnam, Afghanistan [? see below] ( Attems 1929; Bonato et al. 2016).

Remarks. Material is in SMF.

Bonato & Minelli (2004) assigned specimens of M. cephalotes from Himalayas ( Silvestri 1919) to M. silvestrii Bonato & Minelli, 2004 . Nevertheless, they also assumed M. cephalotes can be presented in highlands of W Himalayas as reported by Loksa (1971). Later Bonato et al. (2016) suggested records of M. cephalotes from Western Himalayas and Hindukush are possibly based on misidentification.