Strigamia acuminata

Strigamia acuminata
Photographed in Derbyshire, England
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Geophilidae
Genus: Strigamia
Species:
S. acuminata
Binomial name
Strigamia acuminata
(Leach, 1816)
Synonyms
  • Scolioplanes microdon Attems, 1904
  • Scolioplanes brevidentatus Verhoeff, 1928
  • Scolioplanes crinitus Attems, 1929
  • Scolioplanes pachypus Verhoeff, 1935
  • Scolioplanes mediterraneus Verhoeff, 1928
  • Scolioplanes silvaenigrae Verhoeff, 1937

Strigamia acuminata, commonly called the shorter red centipede, is a species of soil centipede in the subfamily Linotaeniinae, a clade formerly known as the family Linotaeniidae, but now deemed a subfamily within the family Geophilidae.

Description

Strigamia acuminata is red-brown in colour. This species can reach 40 mm in length. Males of this species have 37 to 41 pairs of legs, females have 39 to 43. Like other Strigamia, it has a prominent tooth at the base of the poison claw, and large widely scattered coxal pores on the last legs. The specific name acuminata means "pointed, sharp."

Habitat

Strigamia acuminata lives in woodland habitats in Ireland, southern England and Wales (common in Leicestershire and Rutland), and elsewhere in western and central Europe. It is also recorded in Canada.

Notes

  1. ↑ Several sources incorrectly give the date of Leach's description of S. acuminata as 1815.

References

  1. 1 2 "Strigamia acuminata | British Myriapod and Isopod Group". bmig.org.uk.
  2. ↑ "EUNIS -Species scientific and common names result". eunis.eea.europa.eu.
  3. ↑ "Shorter Red Centipede (Strigamia acuminata)". iNaturalist Canada.
  4. ↑ Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Zapparoli, Marzio (2011). "Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 363–443 [430]. ISBN 978-90-04-18826-6. OCLC 812207443.
  5. ↑ Yu, Yifei; You, Chunxue; Jiang, Chao (2025-10-30). "Taxonomy of the Strigamia centipedes from the East Asian mainland (Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae)". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 101 (4): 2065–2101. doi:10.3897/zse.101.160146. ISSN 1860-0743.
  6. ↑ 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). "Strigamia acuminata (Leach,1815)". ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Retrieved 2025-11-23.
  7. 1 2 "Strigamia acuminata | NatureSpot". www.naturespot.org.uk.
  8. 1 2 Bonato, Lucio; Danyi, Laszlo; Socci, Antonio Augusto; Minelli, Alessandro (2012-12-20). "Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis". Zootaxa. 3593 (1): 1–39 [8]. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3593.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  9. ↑ "Latin Definition for: acuminatus, acuminata, acuminatum (ID: 676) - Latin Dictionary and Grammar Resources - Latdict". latin-dictionary.net.
  10. ↑ "Strigamia acuminata (Leach 1815) - Encyclopedia of Life". eol.org.
  11. ↑ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org.