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Dendrothereua
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Scutigeromorpha
Family:	Scutigeridae
Genus:	Dendrothereua Verhoeff, 1944

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)

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

References

1. ^ "Dendrothereua Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
2. ^ "Dendrothereua Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
3. Shelley, R.M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". Retrieved 2018-05-02.
4. Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2009). "Phylogenetics of scutigeromorph centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) with implications for species delimitation and historical biogeography of the Australian and New Caledonian faunas". Cladistics. 25 (4): 406–427. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00253.x. ISSN 0748-3007. S2CID 73541068.
5. "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-05-02.
6. "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-05-02.

Further reading

• Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Lewis, John G.E.; Minelli, Alessandro; et al. (2010). "A common terminology for the external anatomy of centipedes (Chilopoda)". ZooKeys (69). Pensoft Publishers: 17–51. doi:10.3897/zookeys.69.737. PMC 3088443. PMID 21594038.
• Brusca, Richard C.; Moore, Wendy; Shuster, Stephen M. (2016). Invertebrates (3rd ed.). Sinauer Associates, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1605353753.
• Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 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. doi:10.3897/ijm.5.1865.
• Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2006). "Evolutionary Biology of Centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda)". Annual Review of Entomology. 52: 151–170. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.52.110405.091326. PMID 16872257.
• 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. ISSN 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. doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.01.004. PMID 21255597.

External links

• "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". Retrieved 2018-05-02.

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