Topic summary
Aphilodontidae
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Aphilodontinae.
Phylogeny and taxonomy
In 2014, a phylogenetic analysis of the order Geophilomorpha based on morphological and molecular data found the family Aphilodontidae nested within the family Geophilidae. To avoid paraphyly of the family Geophilidae with respect to Aphilodontidae, authorities dismissed Aphilodontidae as a separate family. Authorities now deem Aphilodontidae to be a junior synonym of Geophilidae. A phylogenetic analysis of the family Geophilidae based on morphology confirms the monophyly of the subfamily Aphilodontinae. The morphological evidence also places this subfamily in a clade with the geophilid genusGeoperingueyia, which emerges as the closest relative of this subfamily in a phylogenetic tree of the family Geophilidae.