Thereuopoda

Thereuopoda
	A long-legged centipede (Thereuopoda clunifera), over 10 cm long, taken at Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Scutigeromorpha
Family:	Scutigeridae
Genus:	Thereuopoda; Verhoeff, 1904
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Teleotelson Verhoeff, 1936; Orthothereua Verhoeff, 1905; Thereuonema (Thereuopoda) Verhoeff, 1904;

Thereuopoda is a genus of centipedes in the family Scutigeridae,^[1] from the Greek θηρεύω (thēreúō) 'hunt' and πούς (poús), ποδός (podόs) 'leg'.^[2]

Species

Thereuopoda chinensis
Thereuopoda clunifera
Thereuopoda longicornis
Thereuopoda sandakana

References

↑ Rosario Dioguardi. "Chilopoda taxonomic browser". ChiloBase. Archived from the original on December 27, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
↑ Verhoeff does not explain the etymology in his publication: Verhoeff, Karl Wilhelm (1904). "Ueber Gattungen der Spinnenasseln (Scutigeridae)" [About genera of house centipedes (Scutigeridae)]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (in German): 245–285. Retrieved 21 June 2026. But he had used the Greek verb θηρεύω (thēreúō) in the same article to name Thereuonema, another genus of Scutigeridae.

External links

Data related to Thereuopoda at Wikispecies
Media related to Thereuopoda at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Rosario Dioguardi. "Chilopoda taxonomic browser". ChiloBase. Archived from the original on December 27, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2011.

[2] Verhoeff does not explain the etymology in his publication: Verhoeff, Karl Wilhelm (1904). "Ueber Gattungen der Spinnenasseln (Scutigeridae)" [About genera of house centipedes (Scutigeridae)]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (in German): 245–285. Retrieved 21 June 2026. But he had used the Greek verb θηρεύω (thēreúō) in the same article to name Thereuonema, another genus of Scutigeridae.

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