Scolopendrellidae is a family of
symphylans in the class
Symphyla
Symphylans, also known as garden centipedes or pseudocentipedes, are soil-dwelling arthropods of the class Symphyla in the subphylum Myriapoda. Symphylans resemble centipedes, but are very small, non-venomous, and only distantly related to both ...
. There are about 7 genera and at least 30 described species in Scolopendrellidae.
[
][
][
] In this family, the first pair of legs is reduced in size and is never more than half as long as the next pair.
In some species, the first pair is only rudimentary or vestigial. In the genus ''Symphylella'', for example, the first leg pair is reduced to small protuberances.
A species of the extant genus ''Symphylella'' is known from the mid Cretaceous (
Cenomanian) aged
Burmese amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. ...
of Myanmar.
Gener
* ''
Geophilella''
* ''
Pseudoscutigerella''
* ''
Scolopendrella''
* ''
Scolopendrellina''
* ''
Scolopendrellopsis''
* ''
Symphylella''
* ''
Symphylellopsis''
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Myriapod families
Myriapods
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