@article {1756, title = {Geophilomorph centipedes from the Cretaceous amber of Burma}, journal = {Palaeontology}, volume = {57}, year = {2013}, month = {03/10/2013}, pages = {97-110}, abstract = {

The only previously known Mesozoic fossils of the chilopod order Geophilomorpha are two species from the Late Jurassic and Late Cretaceous, both known from single specimens that cannot be assigned with precision to a family. Four specimens from the Late Cretaceous (earliest Cenomanian) amber of Burma include three that can be identified as conspecific, described here as Kachinophilus pereirai gen. nov. sp. nov. These specimens preserve greater morphological detail in comparison with other fossil geophilomorphs: the form and fine features of the head, the maxillary complex, the trunk sternites with associated glandular pores and the ultimate pair of legs defend the assignment of the species to the extant family Geophilidae, and most probably to a derived subgroup including well-known extant genera such as Ribautia Br\ölemann, 1909. Confocal laser scanning microscopy supplements examination under incident and transmitted light to document details of high taxonomic relevance in the head and the forcipular segment. The modern appearance of this species and its membership among deeply nested extant clades are consistent with molecular estimates that most of the diversity of crown-group Geophilomorpha originated before the Late Cretaceous.

}, keywords = {Cenomanian, evolutionarily conserved morphology, Geophilidae, Kachinophilus}, issn = {0031-0239}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12051}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.12051}, author = {Bonato, Lucio and Edgecombe, Gregory D. and Minelli, Alessandro} } @article {1502, title = {Scutigeromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha) of the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola}, journal = {Novitates Caribaea}, volume = {6}, year = {2013}, month = {01/10/2013}, pages = {36-44}, abstract = {

The fauna of scutigeromorph centipedes in the Dominican Republic is studied for the first time based on a sample of 28 individuals collected at 21 localities in 12 provinces. This sample was found to represent two species: Sphendononema guildingii (Newport, 1844) and Dendrothereua linceci (Wood, 1867), both species with a wide geographic distribution in the Caribbean and tropical America. The widely introduced and synanthropic species of Mediterranean origin Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758) has never been found in Hispaniola. The scutigeromorph centipedes found as fossilized inclusions in the Dominican amber remain to be properly studied and identified.

Cent\ípedos escutigeromorfos (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha) de Rep\ública Dominicana, La Hispaniola

Resumen: Se estudia por primera vez la fauna de ciempi\és escutigeromorfos de la Rep\ública Dominicana basados en una muestra de 28 individuos colectados en 21 localidades de 12 provincias. Se encontr\ó que esta muestra representa dos especies: Sphendononema guildingii (Newport, 1844) y Dendrothereua linceci (Wood, 1867), ambas especies con una amplia distribuci\ón en el Caribe y Am\érica tropical. La especie ampliamente introducida y sinantr\ópica de origen mediterr\áneo Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758) nunca ha sido colectada en La Hispaniola. Los ciempi\és escutigeromorfos encontrados como f\ósiles en el \ámbar dominicano todav\ía no han sido apropiadamente estudiados e identificados.

}, keywords = {amber fossils, Caribbean, Caribe, centipedes, Chilopoda, ciempi{\'e}s, Dominican Republic, fauna, f{\'o}siles en {\'a}mbar, Haiti, Rep{\'u}blica Dominicana, Scutigeras, Scutigeromorpha}, issn = {2079-0139, 2071-9841}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i6.105}, url = {https://novitatescaribaea.do/index.php/novitates/article/view/105}, author = {Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E. and Edgecombe, Gregory D.} } @booklet {51, title = {Phylogenetics of scolopendromorph centipedes: Can denser taxon sampling improve an artificial classification?}, howpublished = {Invertebrate SystematicsInvertebrate Systematics}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Previous phylogenetic analyses of the centipede order Scolopendromorpha indicated a fundamental division into blind and ocellate clades. These analyses corroborated the monophyly of most families and tribes but suggested that several species-rich, cosmopolitan genera in traditional and current classifications are polyphyletic. Denser taxon sampling is applied to a dataset of 122 morphological characters and sequences for four nuclear and mitochondrial loci. Phylogenetic analyses including 98 species and subspecies of Scolopendromorpha employ parsimony under dynamic and static homology schemes as well as maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference of multiple sequence alignments. The monotypic Australian genera Notiasemus and Kanparka nest within Cormocephalus and Scolopendra, respectively, and the New Caledonian Campylostigmus is likewise a clade within Cormocephalus. New World Scolopendra are more closely related to Hemiscolopendra and Arthrorhabdus than to Scolopendra s.s., which is instead closely allied to Asanada; the tribe Asanadini nests within Scolopendrini for molecular and combined datasets. The generic classification of Otostigmini has a poor fit to phylogenetic relationships, although nodal support within this tribe is weak. New synonymies are proposed for Ectonocryptopinae Shelley \& Mercurio, 2005 (<= Newportiinae Pocock, 1896), Asanadini Verhoeff, 1907 (<= Scolopendrini Leach, 1814), and Kanparka Waldock \& Edgecombe, 2012 (<= Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758). Scolopendrid systematics largely depicts incongruence between phylogeny and classification rather than between morphology and molecules. {\textcopyright} 2013 CSIRO.}, keywords = {Chilopoda, molecules, morphology, phylogeny, Scolopendromorpha.}, author = {Vahtera, Varpu and Edgecombe, Gregory D. and Giribet, Gonzalo} }