Scutigeridae

Scutigeridae is a family of centipedes that are known as house centipedes. It includes most of the species of house centipedes, including Scutigera coleoptrata and Allothereua maculata.^[1][2]

Scutigeridae Temporal range: 122.46–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Cretaceous to present
Scutigera coleoptrata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Scutigeromorpha
Family:	Scutigeridae Leach, 1814

Scutigera coleoptrata

Genera

These 25 genera belong to the family Scutigeridae:

• Allothereua Verhoeff, 1905 ^{i c g}
• Ballonema Verhoeff, 1904 ^{i c g}
• Ballonemella Verhoeff, 1944 ^{i c g}
• Brasiloscutigera Bücherl, 1939 ^{i c g}
• Dendrothereua Verhoeff, 1944 ^{i b}
• Diplacrophor Chamberlin, 1920 ^{i c g}
• Fulmenocursor Wilson, 2001 ^g
• Gomphor Chamberlin, 1944 ^{i c g}
• Parascutigera Verhoeff, 1904 ^{i c g}
• Pesvarus Würmli, 1974 ^{i c g}
• Phanothereua Chamberlin, 1958 ^{i c g}
• Pilbarascutigera Edgecombe and Barrow, 2007 ⁱ
• Podothereua Verhoeff, 1905 ^{i c g}
• Prionopodella Verhoeff, 1925 ^{i c g}
• Prothereua Verhoeff, 1925 ^{i c g}
• Scutigera Lamarck, 1801 ^{i c g b}
• Seychellonema Butler, Edgecombe, Ball and Giribet, 2011 ^{i g}
• Tachythereua Verhoeff, 1905 ^{i c g}
• Thereulla Chamberlin, 1955 ^{i c g}
• Thereuonema Verhoeff, 1904 ^{i c g}
• Thereuopoda Verhoeff, 1904 ^{i c g}
• Thereuopodina Verhoeff, 1905 ^{i c g}
• Thereuoquima Bücherl, 1949 ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[3] c = Catalogue of Life,^[4] g = GBIF,^[5] b = Bugguide.net^[6]

The earliest known member of this family is †Fulmenocursor, an extinct genus from the Early Cretaceous of the Crato Formation of Brazil.^[7]

References

1. Rosario Dioguardi. . ChiloBase. Archived from the original on December 27, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
2. Shelley, R.M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". Retrieved 2018-05-16.
3. "Scutigeridae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
4. "Browse Scutigeridae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
5. "Scutigeridae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
6. "Scutigeridae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
7. "Fossilworks: Fulmenocursor". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

External links

•   Data related to Scutigeridae at Wikispecies
•   Media related to Scutigeridae at Wikimedia Commons