Scolopendridae (or, in older documents, Scolopendridæ) is a
family of large
centipede
Centipedes (from New Latin , "hundred", and Latin , " foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek , ''kheilos'', lip, and New Latin suffix , "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an ...
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Chilopoda). Nearly all species in this family have four ocelli (
simple eyes
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) on each side of the head and only 21 pairs of legs, but there are exceptions: two scolopendrid species feature more legs (''Scolopendropsis bahiensis'', with 21 or 23 leg pairs, and ''S. duplicata'', with 39 or 43 leg pairs), and some scolopendrid species are eyeless and blind (e.g., ''Cormocephalus sagmus'', ''C. pyropygus'', and ''C. delta''). Three Asian members of this family, ''
Scolopendra cataracta'', ''
Scolopendra paradoxa'', and ''
Scolopendra alcyona,'' are known to show amphibious behaviour. Two other species, ''
Scolopendra hardwickei'' and ''
Hemiscolopendra marginata,'' are known to show sexual dimorphism in the composition of their venom.
Genera
Subfamily Otostigminae (Kraepelin, 1903)
Tribe Otostigmini (Kraeplin, 1903)
* ''
Alipes''
Imhoff, 1854
* ''
Alluropus''
Silvestri, 1911
* ''
Digitipes''
Attems, 1930
* ''
Edentistoma''
Tömösváry,1882
* ''
Ethmostigmus''
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, 1898
* ''
Otostigmus''
Porat, 1876
* ''
Rhysida''
Wood, 1862
Tribe Sterropristini (Verhoeff, 1937)
* ''
Sterropristes''
Attems, 1934
Subfamily Scolopendrinae (Leach, 1814)
* ''
Arthrorhabdus''
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, 1891 (= ''Arthrorhabdinus'')
* ''
Asanada''
Meinert, 1885 (= ''Pseudocryptops'')
* ''
Asanadopsis''
Würmli, 1972
* ''
Campylostigmus''
Ribaut, 1923
* ''
Colobopleurus''
Kraepelin, 1903
* ''
Cormocephalus
''Cormocephalus'' is a genus of centipedes of the family Scolopendridae, containing the following species:
*'' Cormocephalus abundantis'' González-Sponga, 2000
*'' Cormocephalus aeruginosus'' Attems, 1928
*'' Cormocephalus albidus'' Kraepelin, ...
''
Newport, 1845
* ''
Cratoraricrus''
Wilson, 2003
* ''
Malaccolabis''
* ''
Notiasemus
'' Notiasemus'' is a monotypic genus of centipedes in the Scolopendridae family. Its sole species is ''Notiasemus glauerti''. It is endemic to Australia, and was first described in 1985 by L. E. Koch.
Distribution
The species occurs in south-wes ...
''
Koch, 1985
* ''
Procrytops''
Piton, 1940
* ''
Psiloscolopendra''
Kraepelin, 1903
* ''
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Meinert, 1886 (= ''Pithopus'')
* ''
Scolopendra''
Linnaeus, 1758
* ''
Scolopendropsis''
Brandt, 1841
* ''
Tonkinodentus''
Schileyko, 1992
The earliest record of this family is †''
Cratoraricrus'', an extinct genus from the
Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous ( geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 145 Ma to 100.5 Ma.
Geology
Pro ...
of the
Crato Formation of
Brazil.
References
External links
* http://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it
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Centipede families
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