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Geophilus aenariensis

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Geophilus aenariensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Geophilidae
Genus: Geophilus
Species:
G. aenariensis
Binomial name
Geophilus aenariensis
(Verhoeff, 1942)

Geophilus aenariensis is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae[1] found in the southern Italian Peninsula. It has a body length of up to 22 millimeters, around 47 leg pairs in females and 51 in males, an absence of anal pores and bristles on the lateral part of the labrum, a distinct carpophagus pit, a small but pointed pretarsus of the second maxillae, and 3-5 coxal pores in each coxopleuron with no isolated coxal pores.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Geophilus aenariensis Verhoeff, 1942". ChiloBase 2.0. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  2. ^ Stojanovic, Dalibor Z.; Mitic, Bojan M.; Gedged, Amna M.; Antic, Dragan Z.; Makarov, Slobodan E. (2019). "Geophilus serbicus sp. nov., a new species from the Balkan Peninsula (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae)". Zootaxa. 4658 (3): 556–570. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4658.3.7. Retrieved 26 October 2021.