Himantariidae

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Himantariidae
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Haplophilus subterranea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Suborder: Adesmata
Superfamily: Himantarioidea
Family: Himantariidae
Bollman, 1893

Himantariidae is a monophyletic family of centipedes in the order Geophilomorpha and superfamily Himantarioidea, [1] found almost exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere. [2] Centipedes in this family feature a short head with a concave labral margin bearing a row of denticles, a single dentate lamella and some pectinate lamellae on each mandible, second maxillae with strongly tapering telopodites and slightly spatulate claws, and a stout forcipular segment with short forcipules and a wide tergite; the ultimate legs usually have no pretarsus, and the female gonopods are distinct and biarticulate. [3]

These centipedes are very elongated with a high mean number of trunk segments (often greater than 100) and great variability in this number within species. [4] The number of leg-bearing segments in this family ranges from 47 to 181. [3] The maximum number of legs recorded in this family (181 pairs) appears in the species Chomatobius bakeri. [5] [6] The minimum number of legs recorded in this family (47 pairs) appears in the species Garriscaphus oreines, [7] [8]

This family contains these genera:

References

  1. ↑ Bonato, Lucio (2014). "Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence". Cladistics. The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society. 30 (5): 485–507. doi: 10.1111/cla.12060 . PMID   34794246. S2CID   86204188.
  2. ↑ R. E. Crabill (1969). "Tracheotaxy as a generic criterion in Himantariidae, with proposal of two new bothriogastrine genera (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology . 12 (12): 1–9. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.12. hdl:10088/5109.
  3. 1 2 Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Zapparoli, Marzio (2011). "Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 363–443. ISBN   978-90-04-18826-6. OCLC   812207443.
  4. ↑ Minelli, Alessandro; Bortoletto, Stefano (1988-04-01). "Myriapod metamerism and arthropod segmentation". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 33 (4): 323–343. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1988.tb00448.x. ISSN   0024-4066.
  5. ↑ Chamberlin, R.V. (1912). "The Chilopoda of California. III". Pomona College Journal of Entomology. 4: 651–672 [672] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  6. ↑ Bonato L.; Chagas Junior A.; Edgecombe G.D.; Lewis J.G.E.; Minelli A.; Pereira L.A.; Shelley R.M.; Stoev P.; Zapparoli M. (2016). "Chomatobius bakeri (Chamberlin,1912)". ChiloBase 2.0: A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  7. ↑ Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1941-12-01). "New Genera and Species of North American Geophiloid Centipeds". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 34 (4): 773–790 [790]. doi:10.1093/aesa/34.4.773. ISSN   1938-2901.
  8. ↑ Bonato L.; Chagas Junior A.; Edgecombe G.D.; Lewis J.G.E.; Minelli A.; Pereira L.A.; Shelley R.M.; Stoev P.; Zapparoli M. (2016). "Garriscaphus oreines Chamberlin, 1941". ChiloBase 2.0: A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
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