Head much elongate, with lateral margins distinctly converging backwards; cephalic pleurites differentiated mesally into a non-areolate band and a marginal sclerotized stilus.
Geophilomorpha (Soil Centipedes)
(after Australian Faunal Directoy): Geophilomorph centipedes range from 9–200 mm in length, have 27–191 pairs of legs, a slender body of 33 or more segments, filiform antennae with 14 segments (two sensory pits are located on the last segment) and no ocelli (i.e. they are blind).
Geophilomorpha (Soil Centipedes)
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Gastropoda
- Insecta
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Entomobryomorpha (slender springtails)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Zygentoma (silverfish)
- Myriapoda