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

Species Apheloria virginiensis

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

Apheloria polychroma, a new species of millipede from the Cumberland Mountains (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)

By Paul E.Marek, Jackson C.Means, Derek A.Hennen,
Zootaxa 4375 (3): 409-425, 2018

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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 5 February, 2020 - 8:15pm

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)

Millipedes of Ohio field guide

By Derek Hennen and Jeff Brown
Ohio Division of Wildlife, 2021

The Ohio Division of Wildlife publishes small field guide booklets on the various flora and fauna of the state. These booklets are aimed at a general audience, with a focus on identifying species based on photos. They include distribution and identification information of Ohio species, and are available for free from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources website. The Millipedes of Ohio field guide can be downloaded directly from [ur

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Contributed by Derek Hennen on 18 March, 2021 - 8:06pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda)

Discovery of a glowing millipede in California and the gradual evolution of bioluminescence in Diplopoda

By Paul E. Marek, Wendy Moore
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol 112 (20): 6419-6424, 2015

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Quote: "The rediscovery of the Californian millipede Xystocheir bistipita surprisingly reveals that the species is bioluminescent."

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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 27 February, 2020 - 8:46am

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