| Scutigera Temporal range:  Eocene to present  | |
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| Scutigera coleoptrata , the house centipede | |
|  Scientific classification   | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda | 
| Class: | Chilopoda | 
| Order: | Scutigeromorpha | 
| Family: | Scutigeridae | 
| Genus: |  Scutigera  Lamarck, 1801  | 
| Type species | |
|  Scutigera coleoptrata  Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation.  | |
| Species | |
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Scutigera is a centipede genus in the scutigeromorph (house centipede) family Scutigeridae, a group of centipedes with long limbs and true compound eyes (which were once thought to be secondary, re-evolved "pseudofacetted eyes" [1] ). [2] [3] [4] It is composed of more than 30 species, [5] including the most common and well-studied species, Scutigera coleoptrata. [6]