Adesmata
{{Short description|Centipede suborder}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|155.7|Present}}{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=69173|title=Clade Adesmata (centipede)|website=Fossilworks}}
| image = Himantarium gabrielis 77427992.jpg
| image_caption = Himantarium gabrielis
| taxon = Adesmata
| authority =
| subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies
| subdivision = * Geophiloidea Leach, 1815
- Himantarioidea Bollman, 1893
}}
Adesmata is a suborder of centipedes within the order Geophilomorpha containing the superfamilies Geophiloidea and Himantarioidea.{{cite web |title=Adesmata |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=1093357#null |website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System |access-date=4 November 2021}} This suborder contains 13 families. All members of this suborder have ventral defensive glands.{{cite journal |last1=Undheim |first1=Eivind A.B. |last2=King |first2=Glenn F. |title=On the venom system of centipedes (Chilopoda), a neglected group of venomous animals |journal=Toxicon |date=March 2011 |volume=57 |issue=4 |pages=512–524 |doi=10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.01.004|pmid=21255597 }}
Description
Species of the suborder Adesmata are characterized by a labrum without a separate intermediate tooth, the lateral parts fringed by projections; coxal projections and telopodites of the first maxillae possessing subapical spine-sensilla and apical scutefilaments; telopodites of the second maxillae short compared to the coxosternite width; forcipular coxosternite with chitin-lines; glands along the trunk opening in ventral pore-fields; and a variable number of legs between conspecific specimens. However, there are reversals within the suborder and most autapomorphies evolved in parallel to other centipedes.{{cite journal |last1=Bonato |first1=Lucio |title=Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence |journal=Cladistics. The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society |date=2014 |volume=30 |issue=5 |pages=485–507 |doi=10.1111/cla.12060 |pmid=34794246 |s2cid=86204188 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.12060 |access-date=27 October 2021|doi-access=free }}