Ityphilus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Synonyms
  • Thalthybius Attems, 1900
  • Thalthybius (Prionothalthybius) Brölemann, 1909

Ityphilus is a genus of centipedes in the family Ballophilidae. It was described by American myriapodologist Orator Fuller Cook in 1899.[1][2] Centipedes in this genus range from 2 cm to 9 cm in length and have 41 to 113 pairs of legs.[3] The large species Ityphilus grandis can reach 93 mm in length and have as many as 113 leg pairs, the maximum number found in the Ballophilidae.[4]

Species

There are about 28 valid species:[2]

  • Ityphilus betschi Pereira, 2010
  • Ityphilus bonatoi Pereira, 2013
  • Ityphilus boteltobogensis (Wang, 1955)
  • Ityphilus calinus Chamberlin, 1957
  • Ityphilus cavernicolus (Matic, Negrea & Fundora Martínez, 1977)
  • Ityphilus ceibanus Chamberlin, 1922
  • Ityphilus cifuentesi Cupul-Magaña, 2014
  • Ityphilus crabilli Pereira, Minelli & Barbieri, 1994
  • Ityphilus demoraisi Pereira, Minelli & Barbieri, 1995
  • Ityphilus donatellae Pereira, 2012
  • Ityphilus geoffroyi Pereira, 2013
  • Ityphilus grandis (Turk, 1955)
  • Ityphilus grismadoi Pereira, 2017
  • Ityphilus guianensis Chamberlin, 1921
  • Ityphilus idanus Crabill, 1960
  • Ityphilus krausi Pereira & Minelli, 1996
  • Ityphilus lilacinus Cook, 1899
  • Ityphilus mauriesi Demange & Pereira, 1985
  • Ityphilus melanostigma (Attems, 1900)
  • Ityphilus microcephalus (Brölemann, 1909)
  • Ityphilus nemoides Chamberlin, 1943
  • Ityphilus palidus (Matic, Negrea & Fundora Martínez, 1977)
  • Ityphilus perrieri (Brölemann, 1909)
  • Ityphilus polypus (Matic, Negrea & Fundora Martínez, 1977)
  • Ityphilus saucius Pereira, Foddai & Minelli, 2000
  • Ityphilus savannus Chamberlin, 1943
  • Ityphilus sensibilis Pereira, Foddai & Minelli, 2000
  • Ityphilus tenuicollis (Takakuwa, 1934)

References

  1. 1 2 Cook, OF (1899). "The Geophiloidea of Florida Keys". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 4: 303–312 [306].
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  4. ↑ 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. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1955.tb00612.x. ISSN 0370-2774.
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