Orphnaeus is a genus of centipedes in the family Oryidae. This genus was described by Danish entomologist Frederik Vilhelm August Meinert in 1870.[1][2] Centipedes in this genus are found in tropical regions.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Geophilomorpha |
| Family: | Oryidae |
| Genus: | Orphnaeus Meinert, 1870[1] |
| Type species | |
| Orphnaeus lividus Meinert,1870
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Description
editCentipedes in this genus have short ultimate legs, range from 3 cm to 13 cm in length, and have 53 to 131 pairs of legs.[3] The minimum number of legs in this genus (53 pairs) appears in the species Orphnaeus bevilabiatus; the maximum number (131 pairs) appears in the species O. madegassus.[4]
Species
editThere are 14 valid species:[2]
- Orphnaeus atopus (Chamberlin, 1920)
- Orphnaeus bohlsi Attems, 1903
- Orphnaeus brasilianus (Humbert & Saussure, 1870)
- Orphnaeus brevilabiatus (Newport, 1845)
- Orphnaeus fangaroka Saussure & Zehntner L., 1902
- Orphnaeus guillemini (Gervais, 1847)
- Orphnaeus heteropodus Lawrence, 1963
- Orphnaeus maculatus Lawrence, 1960
- Orphnaeus madegassus Lawrence, 1960
- Orphnaeus meruinus Attems, 1909
- Orphnaeus multipes Manfredi, 1939
- Orphnaeus polypodus Silvestri, 1895
- Orphnaeus porosus Verhoeff K. W., 1937
- Orphnaeus validus Lawrence, 1953
References
edit- ^ a b Meinert, F (1870). "Myriapoda Musaei Hauniensis. Bitrag til Myriapodernes morphologi og systematik. I. Geophile". Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, 3. 7: 1–128 [17].
- ^ a b 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 4 March 2023.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Lawrence, R.F. (1960). "Myriapodes Chilopodes". Faune de Madagascar (in French). 12: 1-123 [28, 33] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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