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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Xystodesmidae

Family Xystodesmidae

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Xystodesmidae

A species catalog of the millipede family Xystodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida)

By Paul Marek, Tsutomu Tanabe & Petra Sierwald
Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications, 2014

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Contributed by Hisserdude on 16 November, 2018 - 4:38pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Xystodesmidae

A new diplopod of the genus Caralinda Hoffman from South Carolina (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)

By Rowland M. Shelley
Myriapodologica 6(15): 147-150, 2000

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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 12 November, 2018 - 9:19am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Xystodesmidae

Parcipromus, n. gen., a xystodesmid milliped genus from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California (Polydesmida)

By Rowland M. Shelley
Myriapodologica 3(7): 53-70, 1995

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new genus: Parcipromus Shelley, 1995

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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 12 November, 2018 - 7:17am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Xystodesmidae

The status of Cleptoria divergens (Chamberlin) (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)

By Rowland M. Shelley
Myriapodologica 1: 81-89, 1983

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unaccepted as Sigmoria divergens

accepted name Prionogonus divergens (Chamberlin, 1939)

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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 12 November, 2018 - 5:31am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Xystodesmidae

A New Milliped of the genus Parvulodesmus Shelley from North Carolina, with Rediagnoses of the Genus and P.prolixogonus ...

By Rowland M. Shelley
Myriapodologica 7: 77-84, 2001

Full title: A New Milliped of the genus Parvulodesmus Shelley from North Carolina, with Rediagnoses of the Genus and P.prolixogonus
Shelley Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)
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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 12 November, 2018 - 5:01am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Xystodesmidae » Rhysodesmini » Boraria » Boraria infesta

Distribution of the American milliped genus Boraria Chamberlin, 1943: Introductions of B. stricta (Brölemann, 1896) in New York

By Shelley, Rowland M.; McAllister, Chris T.; Nagy, Christopher M.; Weckel, Mark E.; Christie, Roderick G.; Wilson, P; &Wilson, A
Insecta Mundi, 2011

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Shelley, Rowland M.; McAllister, Chris T.; Nagy, Christopher M.; Weckel, Mark E.; Christie, Roderick G.; Wilson, Paul; and Wilson,
Allan, "Distribution of the American milliped genus Boraria Chamberlin, 1943: Introductions of B. stricta (Brölemann, 1896) in New
York and B. infesta (Chamberlin, 1918) in Connecticut; indigenous occurrence of B. profuga (Causey, 1955) in Louisiana (Diplopoda
Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)." (2011). Insecta Mundi. Paper 708.

Full paper available online from Insecta Mundi here.

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Contributed by Derek Hennen on 3 July, 2015 - 10:20pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Xystodesmidae » Chonaphini » Semionellus » Semionellus placidus

The Chonaphini, a biogeographically significant milliped tribe in eastern and western North America (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)

By Shelley, Rowland M.
Brimleyana, 1994

Full citation: Shelley, R. M. 1994. The Chonaphini, a biogeographically significant milliped tribe in eastern and western North America (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Brimleyana 20: 111-200.

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Contributed by Derek Hennen on 4 July, 2015 - 5:41pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Xystodesmidae » Nannariini » Nannaria

A revision of the minor species group in the millipede genus Nannaria Chamberlin, 1918 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae)

By Jackson C. Means, Derek A. Hennen, Paul E. Marek
Zookeys, 2021

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Contributed by Curt Harden on 25 December, 2021 - 5:19pm

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