Dendrothereua is a genus of house centipedes in the family Scutigeridae. There are at least three described species in Dendrothereua, found in the southern United States and the Neotropics.[1][2][3]
| Dendrothereua | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Scutigeromorpha |
| Family: | Scutigeridae |
| Genus: | Dendrothereua Verhoeff, 1944 |
Dendrothereua was formerly considered a taxonomic synonym of Scutigera. In 2009, Edgecomb and Giribet[4] resurrected the genus based on Phylogenetic research. The species of Dendrothereua are still sometimes considered part of Scutigera.
Species edit
These one species belong to the genus Dendrothereua:
- Dendrothereua linceci (Wood, 1867) i
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[6] b = Bugguide.net[2]
References edit
- ^ a b "Dendrothereua Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ a b "Dendrothereua Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ Shelley, R.M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2009). "Phylogenetics of scutigeromorph centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) with implications for species delimitation and historical biogeography of the Australian and New Caledonian faunas". Cladistics. 25 (4): 406–427. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00253.x. ISSN 0748-3007. S2CID 73541068.
- ^ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-05-02.
Further reading edit
- Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Lewis, John G.E.; Minelli, Alessandro; et al. (2010). "A common terminology for the external anatomy of centipedes (Chilopoda)". ZooKeys (69). Pensoft Publishers: 17–51. doi:10.3897/zookeys.69.737. PMC 3088443. PMID 21594038.
- Brusca, Richard C.; Moore, Wendy; Shuster, Stephen M. (2016). Invertebrates (3rd ed.). Sinauer Associates, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1605353753.
- Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
- Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán (2011). "Centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda) of Biologia Centrali-Americana: Current status of the names". International Journal of Myriapodology. 5: 55–62. doi:10.3897/ijm.5.1865.
- Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2006). "Evolutionary Biology of Centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda)". Annual Review of Entomology. 52: 151–170. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.52.110405.091326. PMID 16872257.
- Jeekel, Casimir Albrecht Willem (2005). "Nomenclator generum et familiarum Chilopodorum: a list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Chilopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957". Myriapod Memoranda. 1.
- Stoev, Pavel; Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques (2004). "An annotated catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the collection of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha)". Zootaxa (635): 1–12. ISSN 1175-5334.
- Undheim, Eivind A.B.; King, Glenn F. (2011). "On the venom system of centipedes (Chilopoda), a neglected group of venomous animals". Toxicon. 57 (4): 512–524. doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.01.004. PMID 21255597.
External links edit
- "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". Retrieved 2018-05-02.
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