Himantarioidea is a

monophyletic In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...

superfamily SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...

of soil centipedes in the

suborder Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...

Adesmata Adesmata is a suborder of centipedes within the order Geophilomorpha containing the superfamilies Geophiloidea and Himantarioidea. This suborder contains 13 families. All members of this suborder have ventral defensive glands. Description Spec ...

containing the families

Oryidae ''Oryidae'' is a monophyletic family of soil centipedes belonging to the superfamily Himantarioidea. The number of leg-bearing segments in this family varies within species and ranges from 53 to 169. This family contains the following genera: * ...

Himantariidae Himantariidae is a monophyletic family of centipedes in the order Geophilomorpha and superfamily Himantarioidea Himantarioidea is a monophyletic superfamily of soil centipedes in the suborder Adesmata containing the families Oryidae ' ...

, and

Schendylidae Schendylidae is a paraphyletic (with respect to Ballophilidae) family of soil centipedes in the order Geophilomorpha and superfamily Himantarioidea. There are at least 47 genera and 310 described species in Schendylidae. Compared to most ...

(including Ballophilidae). It's characterized by labrum fringed by marginal denticles, epipharynx with clusters of spear-shaped sensilla on the clypeal part, and telopodites of the second maxillae with a distally flattened pretarsus.

References

Geophilomorpha Arthropod superfamilies {{Myriapod-stub