Strigamia crassipes

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Strigamia crassipes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Geophilidae
Genus: Strigamia
Species:
S. crassipes
Binomial name
Strigamia crassipes
(C. L. Koch, 1835)
Synonyms [1] [2]
  • Scolioplanes crassipes(C. L. Koch, 1835)
  • Scolioplanes mediterraneusVerhoeff, 1928

Strigamia crassipes is a species of soil centipede in the subfamily Linotaeniinae, a clade formerly known as the family Linotaeniidae, [3] but now deemed a subfamily within the family Geophilidae. [4] [5]

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Description

Strigamia crassipes is red in colour and has a prominent tooth at the base of the poison claw. This species can reach 56 mm in length. [6] Males of this species have 45 to 57 pairs of legs; females have 45 to 59 pairs. [6] The number of legs distinguishes this species from S. acuminata , which has only 37 to 41 leg pairs in males and 39 to 43 pairs in females. [6] The specific name crassipes is Latin for "thick leg." [7]

This centipede produces a bioluminescent substance in its sternal glands and secretes it through the sternal pore fields; it is yellow or blue in colour. [8]

Habitat

Strigamia crassipes lives in woodland habitats in Ireland, southern England and Wales, and elsewhere in Europe. [9] [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Strigamia crassipes Koch, 1835". www.gbif.org.
  2. ↑ Bettini, S. (March 13, 2013). Arthropod Venoms. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN   9783642455018 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Zapparoli, Marzio (2011). "Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 363–443 [430]. ISBN   978-90-04-18826-6. OCLC   812207443.
  4. ↑ Yu, Yifei; You, Chunxue; Jiang, Chao (2025-10-30). "Taxonomy of the Strigamia centipedes from the East Asian mainland (Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae)". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 101 (4): 2065–2101. doi: 10.3897/zse.101.160146 . ISSN   1860-0743.
  5. ↑ 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). "Strigamia crassipes (C.L. Koch,1835)". ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Retrieved 2025-11-23.
  6. 1 2 3 Bonato, Lucio; Danyi, Laszlo; Socci, Antonio Augusto; Minelli, Alessandro (2012-12-20). "Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis" . Zootaxa. 3593 (1): 1–39. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3593.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334.
  7. ↑ Roháček, J.; Hoffeins, C. (2021). "Clusiomitidae, A New Family of Eocene Fossil Acalyptratae, with Revision of Acartophthalmites Hennig and Clusiomites Gen. Nov. (Diptera) - PMC". Insects. 12 (12): 1123. doi: 10.3390/insects12121123 . PMC   8705662 . PMID   34940210.
  8. ↑ Minelli, Alessandro (March 21, 2011). Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. BRILL. ISBN   9789004188266 – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ "Strigamia crassipes (C.L. Koch, 1835) | British Myriapod and Isopod Group". www.bmig.org.uk.
  10. ↑ Fet, Victor; Popov, Alexi (June 21, 2007). Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN   9781402044175 – via Google Books.
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