Australiophilus Explained

Australiophilus is a genus of two species of centipedes, in the family Zelanophilidae. This genus was described by German myriapodologist Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff in 1925.^[1] Centipedes in this genus are found in Australia and New Zealand.

Description

Centipedes in this genus feature labral lateral parts with dense bristles and ultimate legs with reduced pretarsi, range from about 7 cm to 12 cm in length, and have from 95^{[2] [3]} to 117 pairs of legs.^[4]

Species

Valid species:^[1]

• Australiophilus ferrugineus (Hutton, 1877)
• Australiophilus longissimus Verhoeff, 1925

Notes and References

1. Web site: 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. 28 February 2023.
2. Haase . Erich . 1887 . Die Indisch-Australischen Myriopoden. Pt. I. Chilopoden . Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden . German . 1 . 5 . 1-118 [111] . Biodiversity Heritage Library.
3. Bonato . Lucio . Drago . Leandro . Murienne . Jerome . 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 [507] . 10.1111/cla.12060 . 34794246 . 86204188 . free.
4. Book: Bonato . Lucio . The Myriapoda. Volume 1 . Edgecombe . Gregory D. . Zapparoli . Marzio . Brill . 2011 . 978-90-04-18826-6 . Minelli . Alessandro . Leiden . 363–443 . Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview . 812207443.