Pilbara Soil Centipede (WAM CHI042)
Mecistocephalus
FP-14303
Discoverer: E.S. Volschenk (2013)
Fauna Portal species: 14303
Family: Mecistocephalidae
Diagnosis
Mecistocephalus FP-14303 is diagnosed by molecular methods (COI barcoding).
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
unknown
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Western Australian Museum
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T128073
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17 May 2013
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Australia
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Western Australia
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ca. 23.5 km SW. of Pannawonica
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litter sifting
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Volker Framenau, 17 September 2025
Geophilomorpha (Soil Centipedes)
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Entognatha
- Gastropoda
- Insecta
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Entomobryomorpha (slender springtails)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Zygentoma (silverfish)
- Myriapoda