Aphilodontidae
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| Aphilodontidae | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | |
| Order: | Geophilomorpha
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| Superfamily: | Geophiloidea
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Aphilodontidae is a monophyletic clade of soil centipedes in the family Geophilidae found in South America and South Africa. They're closely related to and characterized by shieldlike setae on the front of the head, lateral parts of the flattened cuticle above the mouthparts, and combined forcipular trochanteroprefemur and femur.[1]
Genera[]
- Silvestri, 1898
- Silvestri, 1909
- Calvanese, Brescovit & Bonato
- Attems, 1926
References[]
- ^ Calvanese, Victor C. (2019-11-15). "Revision of the Neotropical species of Aphilodontinae (Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae), with eight new species and a first phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily". Zootaxa. 4698 (01): 1–72. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4698.1.1. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
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