Biology:Strigamia acuminata

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Short description: Species of centipede

Strigamia acuminata
Photographed in Derbyshire, England
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Linotaeniidae
Genus: Strigamia
Species:
S. acuminata
Binomial name
Strigamia acuminata
(Leach, 1816)[lower-alpha 1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Scolioplanes microdon Attems, 1904
  • Scolioplanes brevidentatus Verhoeff, 1928
  • Scolioplanes crinitus Attems, 1929
  • Scolioplanes pachypus Verhoeff, 1935
  • Scolioplanes mediterraneus Verhoeff, 1928
  • Scolioplanes silvaenigrae Verhoeff, 1937

Strigamia acuminata, commonly called the shorter red centipede,[3] is a species of soil centipede in the subfamily Linotaeniinae, a clade formerly known as the family Linotaeniidae,[4] but now deemed a subfamily within the family Geophilidae.[5][6]

Description

Strigamia acuminata is red-brown in colour.[7] This species can reach 40 mm in length.[8] Males of this species have 37 to 41 pairs of legs, females have 39 to 43.[8] Like other Strigamia, it has a prominent tooth at the base of the poison claw, and large widely scattered coxal pores on the last legs. The specific name acuminata means "pointed, sharp."[1][9]

Habitat

Strigamia acuminata lives in woodland habitats in Ireland, southern England and Wales (common in Leicestershire and Rutland),[7] and elsewhere in western and central Europe.[10] It is also recorded in Canada.[11]

Notes

  1. Several sources incorrectly give the date of Leach's description of S. acuminata as 1815.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Strigamia acuminata | British Myriapod and Isopod Group". https://bmig.org.uk/species/strigamia-acuminata. 
  2. "EUNIS -Species scientific and common names result". https://eunis.eea.europa.eu/species-names-result.jsp?pageSize=10&relationOp=2&typeForm=0&showGroup=true&showOrder=true&showFamily=true&showScientificName=true&showVernacularNames=false&showValidName=true&searchSynonyms=true&sort=2&ascendency=0&scientificName=Strigamia+acuminata. 
  3. "Shorter Red Centipede (Strigamia acuminata)". https://inaturalist.ca/taxa/521083-Strigamia-acuminata. 
  4. Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Zapparoli, Marzio (2011). "Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview". in Minelli, Alessandro. The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 363–443 [430]. ISBN 978-90-04-18826-6. OCLC 812207443. 
  5. Yu, Yifei; You, Chunxue; Jiang, Chao (2025-10-30). "Taxonomy of the Strigamia centipedes from the East Asian mainland (Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae)". Zoosystematics and Evolution 101 (4): 2065–2101. doi:10.3897/zse.101.160146. ISSN 1860-0743. https://zse.pensoft.net/article/160146/. 
  6. Bonato, L.; Chagas Junior, A.; Edgecombe, G.D.; Lewis, J.G.E.; Minelli, A.; Pereira, L.A.; Shelley, R.M.; Stoev, P. et al. (2016). "Strigamia acuminata (Leach,1815)". https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it/searches/result_species/2948. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 "Strigamia acuminata | NatureSpot". https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/strigamia-acuminata. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 Bonato, Lucio; Danyi, Laszlo; Socci, Antonio Augusto; Minelli, Alessandro (2012-12-20). "Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis". Zootaxa 3593 (1): 1–39 [8]. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3593.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3593.1.1. 
  9. "Latin Definition for: acuminatus, acuminata, acuminatum (ID: 676) - Latin Dictionary and Grammar Resources - Latdict". https://latin-dictionary.net/definition/676/acuminatus-acuminata-acuminatum. 
  10. "Strigamia acuminata (Leach 1815) - Encyclopedia of Life". https://eol.org/pages/307771. 
  11. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1201807/Strigamia_acuminata. 

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