Sepedonophilus hodites is a species of centipede in the Geophilidae family. It is endemic to Australia, and was first described in 1940 by American biologist Ralph Vary Chamberlin.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Geophilomorpha |
| Family: | Geophilidae |
| Genus: | Sepedonophilus |
| Species: | S. hodites
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| Binomial name | |
| Sepedonophilus hodites (Chamberlin, 1940)[1]
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Description
editThe original description of this species is based on a male specimen measuring 18 mm in length with 49 pairs of legs.[1]
Distribution
editThe species occurs in most Australian states. It has also been recorded in Hawaii as an adventive species, though is probably not established there.[3][2]
Behaviour
editThe centipedes are solitary terrestrial predators that inhabit plant litter, soil and rotting wood.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c Chamberlin, RV (1940). "Diagnosis of ten new chilopods with a new genus of Sogonidae and a key to the species of Lophobius". Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 16 (2): 49–56 [55].
- ^ 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 26 February 2023.
- ^ a b "Species Sepedonophilus hodites Chamberlin, 1940". Australian Faunal Directory. Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia. 2010. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
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