Aphilodon

Aphilodon is a genus of soil centipedes in the subfamily Aphilodontinae, a clade formerly known as the family Aphilodontidae but now deemed a subfamily within the family Geophilidae. These centipedes are found in South America. This genus includes sixteen species and is the most diverse of the Neotropical genera in the subfamily Aphilodontinae.

== Taxonomy == This genus was first described by the Italian zoologist Filippo Silvestri in 1898 to contain the newly discovered type species A. spegazzinii. In 1902, the French myriapodologist Henri W. Brölemann described the second species assigned to this genus, A. micronyx. In 1907, Brölemann proposed a new genus, Mecistauchenus, to contain A. micronyx as its type species. In 1908, the German zoologist Karl W. Verhoeff proposed another new genus, Brasilophilus, also to contain A. micronyx as its type species, but in 1909, Brölemann deemed Brasilophilus to be a junior synonym of Mecistauchenus.