Dendrothereua is a genus of house centipedes in the family Scutigeridae.

There are at least three described species in Dendrothereua, found in the southern United States and the Neotropics.

[1][2][3] Dendrothereua was formerly considered a taxonomic synonym of Scutigera.

In 2009, Edgecomb and Giribet[4] resurrected the genus based on Phylogenetic research.

These one species belong to the genus Dendrothereua: Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[6] b = Bugguide.net[2]