| Ityphilus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Geophilomorpha |
| Family: | Ballophilidae |
| Genus: | Ityphilus O.F.Cook, 1899[1] |
| Type species | |
| Ityphilus lilacinus O.F.Cook, 1899
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Ityphilus is a genus of centipedes in the clade Ballophilidae. It was described by American myriapodologist Orator Fuller Cook in 1899.[1][2] Centipedes in this genus feature distinctly club-like antennae, well marked sclerotized lines on the forcipular coxosternite, and two pores on each coxopleuron.[3] These centipedes range from about 1 cm to about 9 cm in length and have 41 to 113 pairs of legs.[3][4] The dwarf species Ityphilus donatellae ranges from 8.5 to 11 mm in length and can have as few as 41 leg pairs (41 in males, 43 in females), the minimum number found in this genus.[4] The large species I. grandis can reach 93 mm in length and have as many as 113 leg pairs, the maximum number found in the clade Ballophilidae.[5]
- ^ a b Cook, OF (1899). "The Geophiloidea of Florida Keys". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 4: 303–312 [306].
- ^ 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 3 April 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Pereira, Luis Alberto (2012). "A new dwarf species, new distribution records, and supplementary descriptive notes of the centipede genus Ityphilus Cook, 1899 (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Ballophilidae) from central Amazonia, Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 52: 291–309 [296]. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492012002500001. ISSN 0031-1049.
- ^ Turk, F. A. (1955). "The chilopods of Peru with descriptions of new species and some zoogeographical notes on the Peruvian chilopod fauna". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 125 (3–4): 469–504 [484]. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1955.tb00612.x. ISSN 0370-2774.