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.

Mecistauchenus Brölemann, 1907

Original description: Brölemann H.W. (1907). Mecistauchenus nouveau genre de Géophilides [Myriap. ] - Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France , [1907]:282-283, see p. 283.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae ("Aphilodontinae")

Original rank: genus

Type species: Aphilodon micronyx Brölemann, 1902 - by original designation

Synonym(s):

• Brasilophilus Verhoeff, 1908

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1929). Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 52: 1-388, see p. 320.

Valid Species:

• Mecistauchenus micronyx (Brölemann, 1902)