Dendrothereua Explained
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.
Dendrothereua was formerly considered a taxonomic synonym of Scutigera. In 2009, Edgecomb and Giribet resurrected the genus based on Phylogenetic research. The species of Dendrothereua are still sometimes considered part of Scutigera.
Species
These one species belong to the genus Dendrothereua:
- Dendrothereua linceci (Wood, 1867)
iData sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
Further reading
- Bonato . Lucio. Edgecombe . Gregory D.. Lewis . John G.E.. Minelli . Alessandro. Pereira . Luis A.. 4. 2010. A common terminology for the external anatomy of centipedes (Chilopoda). ZooKeys. Pensoft Publishers. 69. 17–51. 10.3897/zookeys.69.737. 21594038. 3088443. free.
- Book: Brusca . Richard C.. Moore . Wendy. Shuster . Stephen M.. 2016. Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates, Oxford University Press. 3rd. 978-1605353753.
- Book: Capinera . John L.. 2008. Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. 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 . 10.3897/ijm.5.1865. free.
- Edgecombe . Gregory D.. Giribet . Gonzalo. 2006. Evolutionary Biology of Centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda). 16872257. Annual Review of Entomology. 52. 151–170 . 10.1146/annurev.ento.52.110405.091326.
- 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. 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. 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.01.004. 21255597.
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