Typical House Centipedes
Scutigeridae
The Scutigeridae are a family of centipedes. It includes most of the species known as house centipedes, including Scutigera coleoptrata and Allothereua maculata. It includes these genera:
13 branches of this family, most-observed first
Scutigera
genusScutigera
Thereuoneminae
subfamilyThereuoneminae
Seychellonema
genusSeychellonema
Tachythereua
genusTachythereua
Thereulla
genusThereulla
Thereuoquima
genusThereuoquima
Podothereua
genusPodothereua
Diplacrophor
genusDiplacrophor
Gomphor
genusGomphor
Phanothereua
genusPhanothereua
Ballonema
genusBallonema
Ballonemella
genusBallonemella
Brasiloscutigera
genusBrasiloscutigera
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49554.