| Schendyla | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda | 
| Class: | Chilopoda | 
| Order: | Geophilomorpha | 
| Family: | Schendylidae | 
| Genus: | Schendyla Bergsøe & Meinert, 1866[1]  | 
| Type species | |
| Geophilus nemorensis C.L. Koch, 1837  | |
| Synonyms | |
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Schendyla is a genus of centipedes in the family Schendylidae. It was described by Danish entomologists Vilhelm Bergsøe and Frederik Vilhelm August Meinert in 1866.[1][2] Centipedes in this genus range from about 1 cm to about 4 cm in length and have from 31 to 57 pairs of legs.[3] The species Schendyla verneri is notable for its small size (9 mm to 10 mm in length) and for having only 31 leg pairs, the minimum found in this genus.[4] Other small species with notably few legs in this genus include S. walachica (14 mm in length, with as few as 33 leg pairs in males and 35 in females)[5] and S. dalmatica (10 mm in length, with 37 leg pairs in males and 39 in females).[5] Males of the species S. monoeci measure 17.5 mm in length and can have from 51 to as many as 57 leg pairs, the maximum number found in this genus.[5] Descriptions of the species S. vizzavonae report no more than 51 leg pairs, but this species is notable for its relatively large size, reaching 45 mm in length.[5]
Species
There are 21 valid species:[2]
- Schendyla apenninorum (Brölemann & Ribaut, 1911)
 - Schendyla armata Brölemann, 1901
 - Schendyla aternana (Verhoeff, 1934)
 - Schendyla capusei (Dărăbanţu & Matic, 1969)
 - Schendyla carniolensis Verhoeff, 1902
 - Schendyla dalmatica Attems, 1904
 - Schendyla delicatula Kaczmarek, 1969
 - Schendyla dentata (Brölemann & Ribaut, 1911)
 - Schendyla gracillima Verhoeff, 1934
 - Schendyla hispanica (Attems, 1952)
 - Schendyla mediterranea Silvestri, 1898
 - Schendyla monodi (Brölemann, 1924)
 - Schendyla monoeci Brölemann, 1904
 - Schendyla negreai (Dărăbanţu & Matic, 1969)
 - Schendyla nemorensis (C.L.Koch, 1837)
 - Schendyla peyerimhoffi Brölemann & Ribaut, 1911
 - Schendyla tyrolensis (Meinert, 1870)
 - Schendyla varnensis (Kaczmarek, 1969)
 - Schendyla verneri (Folkmanová & Dobroruka, 1960)
 - Schendyla vizzavonae Léger & Duboscq, 1903
 - Schendyla walachica Verhoeff, 1900
 
References
- 1 2 Bergsoe, V; Meinert, F (1866). "Danmarks Geophiler". Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. 3 (4): 81–103 [103].
 - 1 2  Bonato L., Chagas Junior A., Edgecombe G.D., Lewis J.G.E., Minelli A., Pereira L.A., Shelley R.M., Stoev P., Zapparoli M. (2016). "ChiloBase 2.0". A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑  Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Zapparoli, Marzio (2011). "Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 363–443. ISBN 978-90-04-18826-6. OCLC 812207443.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ↑ Folkmanova, B.; Dobroruka, L.J. (1960). "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Chilopoda der UdSSR". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 39: 1811–1818 [1813].
 - 1 2 3 4 Attems, Carl (1929). Attems, Karl (ed.). Lfg. 52 Myriapoda, 1: Geophilomorpha (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 60–64. doi:10.1515/9783111430638. ISBN 978-3-11-143063-8.