Orphnaeus
Orphnaeus is a genus of centipedes in the family Oryidae. It was described by Danish entomologist Frederik Vilhelm August Meinert in 1870.[1][2]
| Orphnaeus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Geophilomorpha |
| Family: | Oryidae |
| Genus: | Orphnaeus Meinert, 1870[1] |
| Type species | |
| Orphnaeus lividus Meinert,1870 | |
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Description
Centipedes in this genus range from 3 cm to 13 cm in length, have 53 to 131 pairs of legs, and are found in tropical regions.[3]
Species
There are 14 valid species:[2]
- Orphnaeus atopus (Chamberlin, 1920)
- Orphnaeus bohlsi Attems, 1903
- Orphnaeus brasilianus (Humbert & Saussure, 1870)
- Orphnaeus brevilabiatus (Newport, 1845)
- Orphnaeus fangaroka Saussure & Zehntner L., 1902
- Orphnaeus guillemini (Gervais, 1847)
- Orphnaeus heteropodus Lawrence, 1963
- Orphnaeus maculatus Lawrence, 1960
- Orphnaeus madegassus Lawrence, 1960
- Orphnaeus meruinus Attems, 1909
- Orphnaeus multipes Manfredi, 1939
- Orphnaeus polypodus Silvestri, 1895
- Orphnaeus porosus Verhoeff K. W., 1937
- Orphnaeus validus Lawrence, 1953
References
- Meinert, F (1870). "Myriapoda Musaei Hauniensis. Bitrag til Myriapodernes morphologi og systematik. I. Geophile". Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, 3. 7: 1–128 [17].
- 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). "ChiloBase 2.0". A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - 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.
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