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2006, G. Eisenbis, “1: Biology of Soil Invertebrates”, in Helmut König, Ajit Varma, editors, Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites and Other Invertebrates, page 34:
Consequently most chilopods are carnivorous, searching for earthworms, enchytraeids, and insects.
2009, M. Schaefer, S. Migge-Kleian, S. Scheu, “Chapter 12: The Role of Soil Fauna for Decomposition of Plant Residues”, in Rainer Brumme, Partap K. Khanna, editors, Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems, page 223:
Important predatory groups in the beech forest at Göttinger Wald are chilopods, spiders, carabid and staphylinid beetles and gamasid mites. Chilopods consume a high proportion of collembolan populations and of other saprophagous groups (Poser, 1988, 1991).
2013, Rudolf Loesel, Harald Wolf, Matthes Kenning, Steffen Harzsch, Andy Sombke, “13: Architectural Principles and Evolution of the Arthropod Central Nervous System”, in Alessandro Minelli, Geoffrey Boxshall, Giuseppe Fusco, editors, Arthropod Biology and Evolution: Molecules, Development, Morphology, page 308:
However, the authors point out that the motoneurons' morphologies are dissimilar in hexapods and chilopods, a fact that argues against a homology of hexapodan and chilopodan longitudinal muscle motoneurons.
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