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A new genus of scutigerid centipedes (Chilopoda) from Western Australia, with new characters for morphological phylogenetics of Scutigeromorpha

Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
Chilopoda Scutigeromorpha Scutigeridae Thereuoneminae Pilbarascutigera Western Australia Pilbara phylogeny

Abstract

The scutigerid centipede Allothereua incola Verhoeff, 1925, originally described from the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia, is abundantly represented in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It forms the basis for a new genus, Pilbarascutigera, resembling Thereuopoda Verhoeff, 1904, and Thereuopodina Verhoeff, 1905, in the form of its female gonopods and in having short, triangular spicula on the tergal plates. Pilbarascutigera unites with Thereuopoda in cladistic analysis of morphological characters based on a pairing of slender, needle-like bristles (Tastborsten sensu Verhoeff) and spines on the posterior tergal plates and the arrangement of sensilla on the metarthron of the female gonopod. Scanning electron microscopic documentation of P. incola informs on numerous aspects of scutigeromorph morphology, including the female subanal plates, tergal prominences, and peristomatic structures.

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