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Myriapods have a single pair of antennae and, in most cases, simple eyes. Exceptions are the two classes symphylans and pauropods, and the millipede order Polydesmida and the centipede order Geophilomorpha, which are all eyeless. [10] The house centipedes on the other hand, have large and well-developed compound eyes. [11]
Cryptops hortensis, a centipede common in coastal areas of Ireland. Glomeris marginata, a pill millipede found in all parts of the island. Lithobius forficatus, the brown or stone centipede. Greenhouse millipede (Oxidus gracilis), a common pest. Polydesmus angustus, the flat-backed millipede.
All centipedes are venomous and can inflict painful stings, injecting their venom through pincer-like appendages known as forcipules or toxicognaths, which are actually modified legs instead of fangs. Despite the name, no species of centipede has exactly 100 legs; the number of pairs of legs is an odd number that ranges from 15 pairs to 191 ...
[19] [20] The species with 12 pairs are the only myriapods with actual legs on the first body segment, as the first pair of legs is modified into forcipules in centipedes, and in pauropods the segment is a reduced collum which bears ventrally a pair of small papillae, while in millipedes it's a collum without any appendages at all. [21]
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Scientifically classified as Diplopoda, millipedes are called “thousand-leggers.” They belong to the Arthropoda phylum, and there are more than 10,000 named millipede species worldwide, except ...
Lhéritier is pursuing his doctorate in ancient myriapods, an arthropod group that includes millipedes and centipedes, at France’s Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 to understand how arthropods ...
Millipedes, myriapods of the class Diplopoda, contain approximately 12,000 described species organized into 16 extant orders and approximately 140 families. This list is based on Shear, 2011, [1] sorted alphabetically by order and taxonomically within order. Note: The names of millipede orders end in "-ida"; suborders end in "-idea".