All millipedes, all the time. An account dedicated to the best class of animals: Diplopoda. Run by @derekhennen. Questions? dearmillipede@gmail.com
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Eating dead leaves and hanging around logs: Twitter finally has a dedicated millipede account! Stay tuned for photos, facts, and stories about the best animals: the millipedes. Have requests or questions? Ask away! #DearMillipede
You'll wanna click through to check out these photos and the weirdly modified head! Great discovery by the authors!
Meet Inversotyphlus ammirandus, "by far the most bizarre hydrophilous cave-dwelling #millipede discovered to date": doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1184…
#caves #millipedes #taxonomy @nes_akkari @Univerzitet_BG @NHM_Wien
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BMIG Bulletin Volume 35 (2023) has just been published online. Articles include the pygmy woodlouse Hyloniscus riparius & flat-back millipede Polydesmus taranus new to UK; and ecological studies on the rare pill-millipede Trachysphaera lobata. bmig.org.uk/view/resource/bm…
A new pill millipede from the Great Smokies!
Pleased to present Nearctomeris smoky, a new species of pill millipede from the Great Smoky Mountains. This paper was led by my fabulous postdoc Ernesto Recuero (proving, for better or worse, that it's not ALL beetles all the time in the Caterino Lab!)
zookeys.pensoft.net/article/…
Unlike the ivory-billed woodpecker, this animal exists! A new species and first of its family to be documented from South America, a fantastic find!
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Descriptions of the #newspecies of the genus Nepalmatoiulus Mauriès, 1983 from China, with notes on the closely coexisting species (#Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)
mapress.com/zt/article/view/…
#Taxonomy
In the pauropod world, the Eurypauropodidae are the Ferraris: the head-turning hot shots that everyone envies. And this paper has three of them, including two new species from China! zookeys.pensoft.net/article/… Check them out! @ZooKeys_Journal
ALT Dorsal views of three Eurypauropodidae, small pauropods with textured tergites
Two new pillipede species from Laos! Both in the genus Hyperglomeris, this study incorporates genetic data. CO1 still isn't enough to sort out questions of relatedness among genera in the Glomeridae. zookeys.pensoft.net/article/… @ZooKeys_Journal
ALT Collage of photos of the new millipede species Hyperglomeris bicaudata, a small black millipede with yellow stripes on each segment and can roll up into a ball
If you've ever wanted to learn more about the post-embryonic development of stone centipedes, you're in luck! A very thorough paper on the development of Lithobius melanops by colleagues in Serbia brill.com/view/journals/ctoz…
A nice paper with useful records and synthesis of stone centipedes in Slovenian caves!
A new study presents an overview of the lithobiomorph #centipede species found across 160 localities in Slovenian #caves. 319 occurrence records are published for the first time: doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.45.…
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This is a tour de force of a publication! Easy to see that a huge amount of work went into this, very nice!
[#millipedes] A reassessment of the Neotropical genus Pseudonannolene Silvestri, 1895: cladistic analysis, biogeography & taxonomic review (Spirostreptida: Pseudonannolenidae)
✒️Luiz Felipe Moretti Iniesta et al.
🔗DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.867…
#newspecies
This is a tour de force of a publication! Easy to see that a huge amount of work went into this, very nice!
[#millipedes] A reassessment of the Neotropical genus Pseudonannolene Silvestri, 1895: cladistic analysis, biogeography & taxonomic review (Spirostreptida: Pseudonannolenidae)
✒️Luiz Felipe Moretti Iniesta et al.
🔗DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.867…
#newspecies
A very nice paper describing a species of cave millipede in Japan, complete with nice photos, SEM micrographs, and genetic sequences!
Redescription of the Subterranean Millipede Antrokoreana gujoensis (Diplopoda: Julida: Nemasomatidae) from Central Honshu, Japan
🔓doi.org/10.12782/specdiv.28.…
#Millipede #Myriapoda #SpeciesDiversity
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Lots of cool critters around deadwood on the Reading Uni campus with @BugBoyDawid today. Best were my first Neelid springtails - Neelus murinus and Megalothorax minimus, the latter only 0.3mm long! Also lots of pauropods and other funky Myriapods like Strigamia crassipes (pic 4)
Even when you're a powerful predator like a centipede, you can't let you guard down. Some ants specifically prey on centipedes! In the eastern US, we have a few species of Stigmatomma which do this.
かっこいいノコギリハリアリ。
ムカデを食べるアリは、他にもムカシアリ（1mm）やジュズフシアリ（3ｍｍ）がいますが、これらを見てからノコギリハリアリ（4.5mm）を見ると巨大に見えます。
自分よりはるかに大きなムカデを捕らえるのがすごいです。
blog.livedoor.jp/antroom/arc…
New Striariids just dropped! The known diversity of this family has absolutely exploded since this series of papers started in 2020, with a center of diversity in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VIII. Three new genera and four #newspecies of minute millipedes from Oregon and Washington, USA(#Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea).
mapress.com/zt/article/view/…
#Taxonomy
Nice video of a Geophilomorph centipede. Look closely and you can see some eggs through her exoskeleton!
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Pill Millipede (Glomeris marginata) @britishmigroup
ALT A relatively short millipede with multiple dark, shiny segments with pale edges and two legs per segment. The millipede is curled up but not in a complete sphere.
