Mesoschendyla
{{Short description|Genus of centipedes}}
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| taxon = Mesoschendyla
| authority = Attems, 1909
| type_species = Schendyla monopora
| type_species_authority = Attems, 1909
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Mesoschendyla is a genus of soil centipedes in the family Schendylidae.{{Cite web |last1=Bonato |first1=L. |last2=Chagas Junior |first2=A. |last3=Edgecombe |first3=G.D. |last4=Lewis |first4=J.G.E. |last5=Minelli |first5=A. |last6=Pereira |first6=L.A. |last7=Shelley |first7=R.M. |last8=Stoev |first8=P. |last9=Zapparoli |first9=M. |date=2016 |title=Mesoschendyla Attems, 1909 |url=https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it/searches/result_genres/522 |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda)}}{{Cite web |title=ITIS - Report: Mesoschendyla |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=1093367#null |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=www.itis.gov}} These centipedes are found in Africa, Madagascar, Java, and Borneo.{{Cite book |last1=Bonato |first1=Lucio |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/812207443 |title=The Myriapoda. Volume 1 |last2=Edgecombe |first2=Gregory D. |last3=Zapparoli |first3=Marzio |publisher=Brill |year=2011 |isbn=978-90-04-18826-6 |editor-last=Minelli |editor-first=Alessandro |location=Leiden |pages=363–443 [441] |chapter=Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview |oclc=812207443}}{{Cite journal |last1=Popovici |first1=George |last2=Akkari |first2=Nesrine |last3=Edgecombe |first3=Gregory |date=2025-05-23 |title=Redescription of Mesoschendyla javanica (Attems, 1907) and its first records from Borneo (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Schendylidae) |journal=Biodiversity Data Journal |language=en |volume=13 |pages=e156917 |doi=10.3897/BDJ.13.e156917 |doi-access=free |issn=1314-2828 |pmc=12125604 |pmid=40453373}} The Austrian myriapodologist Carl Attems originally proposed Mesoschendyla in 1909 as a subgenus within the genus Schendyla.{{Cite journal |last=Attems |first=Carl August Theodor Michael von |date=1909 |title=Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika, ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905. VIII. Myriopoden |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/154482 |journal=Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena |language=German |volume=14 |pages=1–52 [19]}} The genus Mesochendyla is relatively small, containing only eight species. These centipedes resemble their close relatives in the genera Schendylops and Orygmadyla.{{Cite journal |last1=Hoffman |first1=Richard L. |last2=Pereira |first2=Luis Alberto |date=1997 |title=The identity and taxonomic status of the generic names Schendylops Cook, 1899, and Schendylurus Silvestri, 1907, and the proposal of Orygmadyla, a new related genus from Perú (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Schendylidae) |url=http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/155753 |journal=Myriapodologica |language=en |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=18, 22 |issn=0163-5395}}
Description
Centipedes in this genus feature fields of pores on the anterior sternites only. The main sternite of the last leg-bearing segment features is wide. The basal element of each of the ultimate legs features a single pore.
Centipedes in this genus range from 1 cm to 4 cm in length. These centipedes can have as few as 31 pairs of legs (in the Asian species M. javanica) or as many as 63 leg pairs (in the African species M. monopora and M. picturata).{{Cite book |last=Attems |first=Carl |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111430638/html |title=Lfg. 52 Myriapoda, 1: Geophilomorpha |publisher=De Gruyter |year=1929 |isbn= |editor-last1=Attems |editor-first1=Karl |pages=91–92 |language=de |doi=10.1515/9783111430638}}{{Cite journal |last=Lawrence |first=R. F. |date=1966 |title=The Myriapoda of the Kruger National Park |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00445096.1966.11447346 |journal=Zoologica Africana |language=en |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=225–262 [234–236] |doi=10.1080/00445096.1966.11447346 |issn=0044-5096}} Both M. javanica and the African species M. franzi measure only 10 mm in length and are notable for their small size.{{Cite journal |last=Dobroruka |first=Luděk J. |date=1959 |title=Mesoschendyla franzi nov. spec., eine neue Chilopoden-Art aus dem Tschadgebiet |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41768970 |journal=Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien |language=German |volume=63 |pages=414–415 |jstor=41768970 |issn=0083-6133}} Both M. monopora and M. picturata can reach 40 mm in length and are notable for their large size.
Species
This genus includes the following species:
- Mesoschendyla cribrifera Verhoeff, 1937
- Mesoschendyla franzi Dobroruka, 1959
- Mesoschendyla javanica (Attems, 1907)
- Mesoschendyla leachi Crabill, 1968
- Mesoschendyla monopora (Attems, 1909)
- Mesoschendyla picturata Lawrence, 1966
- Mesoschendyla rossi Crabill, 1968
- Mesoschendyla weberi Verhoeff, 1940
References
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