Agnostrup is a genus of soil centipedes in the family Mecistocephalidae. This genus contains at least three species. These centipedes are found in temperate regions of East Asia and the Russian Far East. Each species in this genus features 41 pairs of legs.
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Agnostrup is a genus of soil centipedes in the family Mecistocephalidae. This genus contains at least three species. These centipedes are found in temperate regions of East Asia and the Russian Far East. Each species in this genus features 41 pairs of legs.
== Taxonomy and phylogeny == This genus was first described in 2003 by the biologists Donatella Foddai, Lucio Bonato, Luis Alberto Pereira, and Alessandro Minelli to contain three species originally assigned to other genera: Taiwanella striata, described in 1949, Taiwanella paucipes, described in 1955, and Krateraspis striganovae, described in 1975. The genus name derives from the Greek word agnostos, which refers to the forgotten status of these three species since their original descriptions, and the name Arrup, which refers to a genus featuring similar morphology. Foddai and her colleagues designated Agnostrup striganovae as the type species for this genus.
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