# Dignathodontidae

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**Dignathodontidae** is a [monophyletic](/source/Monophyly) clade of [soil centipedes](/source/Geophilomorpha) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Geophilidae](/source/Geophilidae)[1] found in the Mediterranean region, extending to [Macaronesia](/source/Macaronesia), [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus), and western and central Europe. The clade is characterized by a gradually anteriorly tapered body, a short head with non-attenuated [antennae](/source/Antenna_(biology)), and a poorly [sclerotized](/source/Sclerite) [labrum](/source/Labrum_(arthropod_mouthpart)) with tubercles.[2] The number of legs in this clade varies within as well as among species and ranges from 43 pairs (in *Henia brevis*[3]) to 153 pairs of legs (in *Henia devia*[4]).[2] Species in this clade tend to have more leg-bearing segments and greater intraspecific variability in this number than generally found in the family Geophilidae.[5]

Genera:[6]

- *[Agnathodon](/source/Agnathodon)* Folkmanová & Dobroruka, 1960
- *[Dignathodon](/source/Dignathodon)* Meinert, 1870
- *[Henia](/source/Henia)* Koch, 1847
- *[Pagotaenia](/source/Pagotaenia)* Chamberlin, 1915
- *[Zygophilus](/source/Zygophilus)* Chamberlin, 1952

## References

1. Bonato, Lucio; Drago, Leandro; Murienne, Jerome (2014). ["Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence"](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cla.12060). *Cladistics. The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society*. **30** (5): 485–507. [doi:10.1111/cla.12060](https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12060). [PMID 34794246](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34794246). [S2CID 86204188](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:86204188). Retrieved 30 June 2022.

1. Minelli, Alessandro (2011). [*Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1*](https://books.google.com/books?id=K995DwAAQBAJ). Brill. pp. 410–413. ISBN 978-90-04-15611-1. Retrieved 30 June 2022.

1. Iorio, Etienne & Quindroit, Clovis (2018). ["New Records of Henia (Chaetechelyne) Duboscqui (Verhoeff, 1943) and of Other Centipedes from Corsica (Chilopoda) Together with Some Notes on the French Species of Henia"](https://bmig.org.uk/sites/default/files/bulletin/BullBMIG30p71-83_Iorio_Henia.pdf). *Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group*. **30**: 71-83 [75-77]

1. Attems, Carl (1929). [*Lfg. 52 Myriapoda, 1: Geophilomorpha*](https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111430638/html) (in German). Attems, Karl (ed.). De Gruyter. p. 233. [doi:10.1515/9783111430638](https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111430638). ISBN 978-3-11-143063-8.

1. Minelli, Alessandro & Bortoletto, Stefano (1988-04-01). ["Myriapod metamerism and arthropod segmentation"](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1988.tb00448.x). *Biological Journal of the Linnean Society*. **33** (4): 323–343. [doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1988.tb00448.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1988.tb00448.x). [ISSN 0024-4066](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0024-4066)

1. ["Dignathodontidae"](https://www.gbif.org/species/4081). *www.gbif.org*. Retrieved 4 June 2021.

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