Schendyla Explained

Schendyla is a genus of soil centipedes in the family Schendylidae.[1] These centipedes are found in the west Palearctic region. This genus was described by Danish entomologists Vilhelm Bergsøe and Frederik Vilhelm August Meinert in 1866. This genus now includes more than 20 species.[2]

Description

Centipedes in this genus feature only a few spines on the claws of the second maxillae, two pores on each coxopleuron, and ultimate legs without claws or with only rudimentary claws. These centipedes range from about 1 cm to about 4 cm in length and have from 29 to 57 pairs of legs.[3] [4] The species Schendyla antici is notable for its small size (5 mm to 8 mm in length) and for having as few as 29 leg pairs (29 pairs in males and 31 in females), the minimum recorded in this genus. Other small species with notably few legs in this genus include S. verneri (reaching only 10 mm in length, with 31 pairs),[5] S. walachica (15 mm in length, with as few as 33 pairs in each sex), S. dalmatica (10 mm in length, with 37 pairs in males and 39 in females), S. dentata (12 mm in length, with 39 pairs in females),[6] S. gracillima (10 mm in length, with as few as 35 leg pairs).[7] and S. armata (11 mm in length, with as few as 33 leg pairs).[8] [9] The species S. monoeci measures only 17.5 mm in length but can have from 51 to as many as 57 leg pairs, the maximum number found in this genus. Descriptions of the species S. vizzavonae report no more than 51 leg pairs, but this species is notable for its relatively large size, reaching 45 mm in length.

Species

This genus includes the following species:

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 . Schendyla Bergsøe & Meinert, 1866 . 2024-06-08 . ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda).
  2. Web site: ITIS - Report: Schendyla . 2024-08-06 . www.itis.gov.
  3. 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.
  4. Stojanović . Dalibor Z. . Šević . Mirko . Makarov . Slobodan E. . 2024-03-07 . A new dwarf schendylid centipede (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Schendylidae) with a low number of legs from Serbia, Balkan Peninsula . Zootaxa . en . 5419 . 3 . 401–418 . 10.11646/zootaxa.5419.3.5 . 1175-5334.
  5. Folkmanova . B. . Dobroruka . L.J. . 1960 . Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Chilopoda der UdSSR . Zoologicheskii Zhurnal . Russian . 39 . 1811–1818 [1813].
  6. Book: Attems, Carl . Lfg. 52 Myriapoda, 1: Geophilomorpha . De Gruyter . 1929 . 978-3-11-143063-8 . Attems . Karl . 60–65 . de . 10.1515/9783111430638.
  7. Verhoeff . Karl W. . 1934 . Beiträge zur Systematik und Geographie der Chilopoden . Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik . 66 . 1-112 [4].
  8. Book: Zapparoli, Marzio . Biodiversity of Marganai and Montimannu (Sardinia). Research in the framework of the ICP Forests network. Conservazione Habitat Invertebrati . 2011 . 2011 . Nardi . G. . 5 . 223–242 [232] . New records and remarks on the centipede fauna of endogean habitats of Sardinia (Chilopoda).
  9. Bonato . Lucio . Minelli . Alessandro . Drago . Leandro . Pereira . Luis Alberto . 2015-09-25 . The phylogenetic position of Dinogeophilus and a new evolutionary framework for the smallest epimorphic centipedes (Chilopoda: Epimorpha) . Contributions to Zoology . 84 . 3 . 237–253 [249] . 10.1163/18759866-08403004 . 1875-9866. 11577/3146565 . free .

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