Geophilidae
The Geophilidae are a polyphyletic, cosmopolitan family of soil centipedes in the superfamily Geophiloidea[3] containing the mostly defunct clades Aphilodontidae,[4] Dignathodontidae,[5] Linotaeniidae,[6] Chilenophilinae,[7] and Macronicophilidae.[8]
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Description
Species in this family are characterized by mandibles with a single pectinate lamella, slender antennae, sternal pores with variable arrangement, a generally slightly or moderately elongate head, frequently undivided coxosternite with two paramedian sclerotized lines, claws without rows of filament, and female gonopods usually being an undivided lamina.[9]
Compared to most other families in the suborder Adesmata, this family features a modest number of leg-bearing segments and limited variation in this number within each species.[10] Two species in this family include centipedes with only 29 pairs of legs: Geophilus persephones (29 pairs in the only specimen, a male), and G. richardi (29 or 31 pairs in males and 33 pairs in females).[11][12] In the order Geophilomorpha, only two species include centipedes with fewer leg pairs, both of them in the family Schendylidae.[11]
Genera
This family contains these genera:[1]
- Abatorus
- Acanthogeophilus
- Achilophilus
- Agathothus
- Agnathodon
- Algerophilus
- Alloschizotaenia
- Aphilodon
- Apogeophilus
- Arctogeophilus
- Arenophilus
- Aztekophilus
- Barrophilus
- Bebekium
- Bithyniphilus
- Brachygeophilus
- Brachygonarea
- Caliphilus
- Cephalodolichus
- Cheiletha
- Chileana
- Chilenophilus
- Chomatophilus
- Clinopodes
- Condylona
- Damothus
- Dekanphilus
- Dignathodon
- Diphyonyx
- Dyodesmophilus
- Dysmesus
- Ecuadoron
- Endogeophilus
- Eremerium
- Eremorus
- Erithophilus
- Eurygeophilus
- Eurytion
- Fagetophilus
- Filipponus
- Galliophilus
- Garrina
- Geomerinus
- Geoperingueyia
- Geophilus
- Gnathoribautia
- Gosipina
- Hapleurytion
- Harmostela
- Harpacticellus
- Henia
- Horonia
- Hovanyx
- Hyphydrophilus
- Ketampa
- Kurdistanius
- Lionyx
- Macronicophilus
- Maoriella
- Mecistauchenus
- Mecophilus
- Mixophilus
- Nabocodes
- Nannocrix
- Navajona
- Nesidiphilus
- Nesomerium
- Nicopus
- Nothogeophilus
- Oligna
- Orinomerium
- Ortognathus
- Pachymerellus
- Pachymerinus
- Pachymerium
- Pagotaenia
- Pandineum
- Peruphilus
- Philacroterium
- Plestophilus
- Plateurytion
- Pleurogeophilus
- Poaphilus
- Polycricus
- Polygonarea
- Porethus
- Portoricellus
- Portoricona
- Proschizotaenia
- Pseudofagetophilus
- Purcellinus
- Pycnona
- Queenslandophilus
- Ribautia
- Schendyloides
- Schizonampa
- Schizonium
- Schizopleres
- Schizotaenia
- Sepedonophilus
- Serrona
- Sogona
- Steneurytion
- Stenotaenia
- Strigamia
- Stylolaemus
- Sundageophilus
- Synerium
- Synthophilus
- Taiyuna
- Taschkentia
- Telocricus
- Timpina
- Tretechthus
- Tuoba
- Tylonyx
- Watophilus
- Zantaenia
- Zygona
- Zygophilus
References
- "Geophilidae Leach, 1815". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
- "Geophilidae".
- Bonato, Lucio (2014). "Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence". Cladistics. 30 (5): 485–507. doi:10.1111/cla.12060. PMID 34794246. S2CID 86204188. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- Calvanese, Victor C. (2019-11-15). "Revision of the Neotropical species of Aphilodontinae (Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae), with eight new species and a first phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily". Zootaxa. 4698 (1): zootaxa.4698.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4698.1.1. PMID 32229999. S2CID 209592191. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- "ITIS - Report: Dignathodontidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- "ITIS - Report: Linotaeniidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- Crabill, Ralph Edwin (1954). "A conspectus of the northeastern North American species of Geophilus (Chilopoda Geophilomorpha Geophilidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 56: 172–188. Retrieved 23 October 2021 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- "ITIS - Report: Macronicophilidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- Minelli, Alessandro (2011-03-21). Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda. Brill. p. 414. ISBN 978-90-04-18826-6. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- 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.
- Pereira, Luis Alberto (2013-01-01). "Discovery of a second geophilomorph species (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) having twenty-seven leg-bearing segments, the lowest number recorded up to the present in the centipede order Geophilomorpha". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 53 (13): 163–185. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013001300001. ISSN 1807-0205.
- Bonato, Lucio; Minelli, Alessandro; Drago, Leandro; Pereira, Luis Alberto (2015-09-25). "The phylogenetic position of Dinogeophilus and a new evolutionary framework for the smallest epimorphic centipedes (Chilopoda: Epimorpha)". Contributions to Zoology. 84 (3): 237–253. doi:10.1163/18759866-08403004. ISSN 1875-9866.