Scutigera
| Scutigera Temporal range: Eocene to present
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| Scutigera coleoptrata, the house centipede | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Scutigeromorpha |
| Family: | Scutigeridae |
| Genus: | Scutigera Lamarck, 1801 |
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| Scutigera coleoptrata Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation.
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Scutigera is a centipede genus in the family Scutigeridae.
Members of the genus have pseudofaceted eyes. This type of eye consists of a cluster of numerous ocelli on each side of the head, organised in a way that resembles a true compound eye, a type of eye found in arthropods. Most myriapods bear stemmata - that is, single lensed eyes which evolved by the reduction of a compound eye. However, the genus Scutigera has secondarily re-evolved a compound eye composed of repeated stemmata.[1] These appear to grow in rows which are inserted between existing rows of ocelli.
Species[]
Extant species[]
Fossil species[]
- , Eocene of Poland (Baltic amber)[2]
- , Eocene of Poland (Baltic amber)[2]
References[]
- ^ Paulus, H.F. (2000), "Phylogeny of the Myriapoda-Crustacea-Insecta: a new attempt using photoreceptor structure*", Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, 38 (3): 189–208, doi:10.1046/j.1439-0469.2000.383152.x
- ^ a b "Fossilworks: Scutigera". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- Lamarck J.-B., 1801. "Système des animaux sans vertebres". Paris, Deterville VIII + 432 pp., see p. 182.
- Würmli, M., 1977. "Zur Systematik der Gattung Scutigera (Chilopoda: Scutigeridae)". Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg N.F. 20: 123-131, see p. 123.
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