Orphnaeus is a genus of centipedes in the family Oryidae. This genus was described by Danish entomologist Frederik Vilhelm August Meinert in 1870. Centipedes in this genus are found in tropical regions.
Description Centipedes in this genus have short ultimate legs, range from 3 cm to 13 cm in length, and have 53 to 131 pairs of legs. The minimum number of legs in this genus (53 pairs) appears in the species Orphnaeus bevilabiatus; the maximum number (131 pairs) appears in the species O. madegassus.
Species There are 14 valid species:
Orphnaeus atopus (Chamberlin, 1920) Orphnaeus bohlsi Attems, 1903 Orphnaeus brasilianus (Humbert & Saussure, 1870) Orphnaeus brevilabiatus (Newport, 1845) Orphnaeus fangaroka Saussure & Zehntner L., 1902 Orphnaeus guillemini (Gervais, 1847) Orphnaeus heteropodus Lawrence, 1963 Orphnaeus maculatus Lawrence, 1960 Orphnaeus madegassus Lawrence, 1960 Orphnaeus meruinus Attems, 1909 Orphnaeus multipes Manfredi, 1939 Orphnaeus polypodus Silvestri, 1895 Orphnaeus porosus Verhoeff K. W., 1937 Orphnaeus validus Lawrence, 1953
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