Pilbara House Centipedes

Pilbarascutigera Edgecombe & Barrow, 2007

Type species: Allothereuaincola Verhoeff, 1925

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 846

(after Edgecombe & Barrow 2007): Thereuonemine with predominantly orange-brown pigmentation; anterior tergal plates having scattered setiform bristles (Stachelborsten sensu Verhoeff 1925) and slender, needle-like bristles (Tastborsten sensu Verhoeff) but lacking spines; tergites 5–7 (and tergites 3–4 in some specimens) with numerous spines, each paired  with a Tastborste, along each side of midline, on stoma saddles, and on lateral parts of tergal plates; tergal spicula short, triangular, relatively sparse; anterior projection of cephalic sutures short, parallel; stoma saddles weakly vaulted; sinus between inner margins of mesarthron of female gonopod broad, parabolic to almost rectangular; margins of metarthron relatively straight in ventral view; female subanal plate drop-shaped, with blunt, rounded distal end; spines in lateral cluster on clypeal part of epipharynx uniformly elongate, slender.

Distinction of Pilbarascutigera and Thereuopoda is straightforward, the former having weakly (versus strongly) vaulted stoma saddles, much shorter spiracles, an absence of spines on the anterior tergal plates (consistent absence on T1; usually absent on T2 and sometimes absent on T3 and T4 in P. incola), and the first appearance of spines on the stoma saddle of TT3, 4 or 5 (versus first appearance on TT1 or 2 in Thereuopoda, with consistent abundance on T2).