Project 622: G. D. Edgecombe, M. Koch. 2008. Phylogeny of scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda): morphological analysis featuring characters from the peristomatic area. Cladistics. 24 (6):872-901.
Specimen: Scolopendra cingulata (NHM (London))

Abstract

Alternative schemes for the higher-level systematics of the centipede order Scolopendromorpha have been established from characters of trunk segmentation, including the segmental position of spiracles, and the presence or absence of eyes. A comparative survey of the preoral chamber by light and scanning electron microscopy contributes 16 new characters of the epipharynx and hypopharynx, sampled from 26 species that represent 20 genera. These new data together with 49 additional morphological characters permit cladistic analysis of the major scolopendromorph groups. The shortest cladograms resolve blind Scolopendromorpha as a basal grade within which a clade now classified as Plutoniuminae + Scolopocryptopidae (supported by unreversed characters from the preoral chamber) is sister to the remaining scolopendromorphs. A unique row of bullet-shaped sensilla between the labral and clypeal parts of the epipharynx provides a new autapomorphy of the Scolopendromorpha. Either 21 or 23 trunk segments optimize at the base of the Scolopendromorpha but in either case homoplasy is forced on the cladogram. New characters from the epipharynx give additional support for the monophyly of several traditional groupings, including Cryptopinae, Scolopendridae, Otostigmini, and Scolopendrini, and a basal resolution of Asanadini within Scolopendridae. Of the two competing hypotheses for the position of the enigmatic Mediterranean Plutonium zwierleini—being either sister to the cryptopid Theatops or sister to all other Scolopendromorpha—the former hypothesis is strongly supported; spiracles on all trunk segments in Plutonium are homoplastic with the state in Geophilomorpha. Observations on feeding behaviour are needed to illuminate convergence in characters of the epipharynx and mandible in Edentistoma (Otostigminae) and Campylostigmus (Scolopendrini).


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Project DOI: 10.7934/P622, http://dx.doi.org/10.7934/P622
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    • Natural History Museum, London

    • Freie Universitaet Berlin (Free University Berlin)



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    [1] Scutigera coleoptrata
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    [2] Lithobius forficatus
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    [3] Mecistocephalus tahitiensis
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    [4] Plutonium zwierleini
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    [5] Theatops erythrocephalus
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    [6] Theatops posticus
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    [7] Cryptops australis
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    [8] Cryptops spinipes
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    [9] Paracryptops weberi
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    [10] Kethops utahensis
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    [11] Newportia longitarsis stechowi
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    [12] Scolopocryptops ferrugineus
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    [13] Scolopocryptops spinicaudus
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    [14] Dinocryptops miersii
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    [15] Scolopendra canidens
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    [16] Scolopendra cingulata
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    [17] Cormocephalus aurantiipes
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    [18] Cormocephalus hartmeyeri
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    [19] Cormocephalus rubriceps
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    [20] Hemiscolopendra chilensis
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    [21] Arthrorhabdus formosus
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    [22] Campylostigmus orientalis
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    [23] Scolopendropsis bahiensis
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    [24] Asanada socotrana
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    [25] Otostigmus astenus
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    [26] Alipes crotalus
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    [27] Ethmostigmus rubripes
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    [28] Rhysida nuda
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    1636301004
    [29] Edentistoma octosulcatus
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