Dendrothereua

Dendrothereua
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Scutigeromorpha
Family:	Scutigeridae
Genus:	Dendrothereua Verhoeff, 1944

Dendrothereua is a genus of house centipedes in the family Scutigeridae. There are at least three described species in Dendrothereua, found in the southern United States and the Neotropics. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Dendrothereua was formerly considered a taxonomic synonym of Scutigera . In 2009, Edgecomb and Giribet ^[4] resurrected the genus based on Phylogenetic research. The species of Dendrothereua are still sometimes considered part of Scutigera.

Species

These one species belong to the genus Dendrothereua:

• Dendrothereua linceci (Wood, 1867) ⁱ

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[1] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[5] g = GBIF, ^[6] b = Bugguide.net ^[2]

References

1. "Dendrothereua Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
2. "Dendrothereua Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
3. Shelley, R.M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals" . Retrieved 2018-05-02.
4. Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2009). "Phylogenetics of scutigeromorph centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) with implications for species delimitation and historical biogeography of the Australian and New Caledonian faunas". Cladistics. 25 (4): 406–427. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00253.x . ISSN   0748-3007. S2CID   73541068.
5. "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-05-02.
6. "GBIF" . Retrieved 2018-05-02.

Further reading

• Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Lewis, John G.E.; Minelli, Alessandro; et al. (2010). "A common terminology for the external anatomy of centipedes (Chilopoda)". ZooKeys (69). Pensoft Publishers: 17–51. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.69.737 . PMC   3088443 . PMID   21594038.
• Brusca, Richard C.; Moore, Wendy; Shuster, Stephen M. (2016). Invertebrates (3rd ed.). Sinauer Associates, Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-1605353753.
• Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN   978-1402062421.
• Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán (2011). "Centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda) of Biologia Centrali-Americana: Current status of the names". International Journal of Myriapodology. 5: 55–62. doi: 10.3897/ijm.5.1865 .
• Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2006). "Evolutionary Biology of Centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda)". Annual Review of Entomology. 52: 151–170. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.52.110405.091326. PMID   16872257.
• Jeekel, Casimir Albrecht Willem (2005). "Nomenclator generum et familiarum Chilopodorum: a list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Chilopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957". Myriapod Memoranda. 1.
• Stoev, Pavel; Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques (2004). "An annotated catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the collection of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha)". Zootaxa (635): 1–12. ISSN   1175-5334.
• Undheim, Eivind A.B.; King, Glenn F. (2011). "On the venom system of centipedes (Chilopoda), a neglected group of venomous animals". Toxicon. 57 (4): 512–524. doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.01.004. PMID   21255597.

External links

• "NCBI Taxonomy Browser" . Retrieved 2018-05-02.