New Genus of Centipede from Australia

A new genus of centipedes has been described from Western Australia. This new genus is Pilbarascutigera and is described in the paper “A new genus of scutigerid centipeds (Chilopoda) from Western Australia, with new characters for morphological phylogenetics of Scutigeromorpha” by G.D. Edgecombe and L. Barrow within Zootaxa 1409: 23-50 (2007)

The new genus is described based on collected specimens since 2000 by the Department of Environment and Conservation of Western Australia, Biota Environmental Sciences and the Australian Museum from the Pilbara region of Australia.

Morphological differences serve as the basis for the new Pilbara regions genus.

This species has a taxonomic breakout as follows:

Order: Scutigeromorpha
Family: Scutigeridae
Subfamily: Thereuoneminae
Genus: Pilbarascutigera
Species: Incola

Description:

Length: Up to 31 mm in males, 28 mm in femalesColor: Orange brown with yellowish sections