Himantariidae

Himantariidae
Stigmatogaster subterranea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Myriapoda
Class:
Chilopoda
Subclass:
Pleurostigmomorpha
Order:
Geophilomorpha
Suborder:
Adesmata
Superfamily:
Himantarioidea
Family:
Himantariidae

Himantariidae is a monophyletic family of centipedes in the order Geophilomorpha and superfamily Himantarioidea,[1] found almost exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere.[2] Centipedes in this family feature a short head with a concave labral margin bearing a row of denticles, a single dentate lamella and some pectinate lamellae on each mandible, second maxillae with strongly tapering telopodites and slightly spatulate claws, and a stout forcipular segment with short forcipules and a wide tergite; the ultimate legs usually have no pretarsus, and the female gonopods are distinct and biarticulate.[3]

These centipedes are very elongated with a high mean number of trunk segments (often greater than 100) and great variability in this number within species.[4] The number of leg-bearing segments in this family ranges from 47 to 181.[3] The maximum number of legs recorded in this family (181 pairs) appears in the species Chomatobius bakeri.[5][6] The minimum number of legs recorded in this family (47 pairs) appears in the species Garriscaphus oreines,[7][8]

This family contains these genera:

  1. ^ Bonato, Lucio (2014). "Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence". Cladistics. The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society. 30 (5): 485–507. doi:10.1111/cla.12060. PMID 34794246. S2CID 86204188.
  2. ^ R. E. Crabill (1969). "Tracheotaxy as a generic criterion in Himantariidae, with proposal of two new bothriogastrine genera (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 12 (12): 1–9. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.12. hdl:10088/5109.
  3. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Chamberlin, R.V. (1912). "The Chilopoda of California. III". Pomona College Journal of Entomology. 4: 651–672 [672] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  6. ^ 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). "Chomatobius bakeri (Chamberlin,1912)". ChiloBase 2.0: A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  7. ^ Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1941-12-01). "New Genera and Species of North American Geophiloid Centipeds". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 34 (4): 773–790 [790]. doi:10.1093/aesa/34.4.773. ISSN 1938-2901.
  8. ^ 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). "Garriscaphus oreines Chamberlin, 1941". ChiloBase 2.0: A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese. Retrieved 24 February 2023.