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Earthworms and collembola relationships: effects of predatory centipedes and humus forms.
The authors provide new insights into the anatomy, systematics, and biogeography of centipedes to put these predatory terrestrial arthropods at the forefront of evolutionary studies.
The authors examined the distributional and competitive relationships of two members of the class Chilopoda, Scolopocryptops sexspinosus, a centipede native to the eastern US, and Lithobius forficatus, an exotic centipede introduced from Europe.
THE epidermis of a centipede is virtually an epithelium of unicellular glands, their secretion being extruded over the surface of the cuticle1. In addition to the general epidermal glands, there are local groups of much larger glands histologically similar to the generally distributed glands.