Scutigeromorph images
Photographs and histological sections of scutigeromorph centipedes.
Allothereua maculata (Newport, 1844) from Crowea State Forest, Western Australia. Although this species name is widely employed for collections from all southern mainland states of Australia, Allothereua maculata in its type area (southwestern Western Australia) can be distinguished from similar southeastern Australian species.
Thereuopoda longicornis (Fabricius, 1793) from Taiwan. This species has been regarded as geographically widespread from India to Japan and northern Australia. Work in progress recognises Australian Thereuopoda as specifically distinct from southeast Asian T. longicornis. Thereuopoda occurs throughout arid parts of Australia.
© Zoltan Korsós
Scutigerina from Worcester, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Molecular evidence indicates that the allegedly widespread species Scutigerina weberi is not monophyletic throughout southern Africa and Madagascar (Edgecombe and Giribet, 2006: Invertebrate Systematics).
© Jonathan Colville
A new species of Thereuoneminae from Algebuckina Bridge, South Australia, one of many newly discovered taxa from arid Australia.
© Matthew Bulbert, Australian Museum
Histological section through the head of Scutigera coleoptrata (horizontal section, dorsal to top, Toluidin stained) showing structures in the preoral chamber. These peristomatic structures provide characters useful for resolving deeper nodes of the scutigeromorph tree (see Koch and Edgecombe, 2006: Zoomorphology).
© Markus Koch
Sphendononema guildingii (Newport, 1844) from Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. This member of the Neotropical-Afrotropical Family Pselliodidae is very widely distributed, from Mexico and the Caribbean all through Central America and South America as far south as Paraguay. Molecular variability in widespread morphospecies is a research focus.
© M. Barclay
Seychellonema gerlachi Butler et al., 2010 from its type locality on the island of Silhouette in the Seychelles. This species has recently been described as the type of a new monotypic genus (Invertebrate Systematics, 24).
© J. Gerlach