Orphnaeus
Genus of centipedes
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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]
| Orphnaeus | |
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| Orphnaeus brevilabiatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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
Centipedes 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
There 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
