Metopidiotrichidae

Metopidiotrichidae

Metopidiotrichidae

Family of millipedes

Metopidiotrichidae is a family of millipedes in the order Chordeumatida. These millipedes range from 4 mm to 17 mm in length.[1] Adult millipedes in this family have 32 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last), not the 30 segments usually found in this order.[2][1] Adult males in this family (e.g., Reginaterreuma monroei, R. daviesae, R. unicolor, R. major, and Neocambrisoma raveni) often feature a reduced or vestigial leg pair 10 as part of the gonopod complex, in addition to the two leg pairs (pairs 8 and 9) typically modified into gonopods in this order.[3][4] There are about 9 genera and at least 70 described species in Metopidiotrichidae.[5][6][7]

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Genera

These nine genera belong to the family Metopidiotrichidae:

  • Australeuma Golovatch, 1986
  • Malayothrix Verhoeff, 1929
  • Metopidiothrix Attems, 1907
  • Neocambrisoma Mauriès, 1987
  • Nesiothrix Shear & Mesibov, 1997
  • Nipponothrix Shear & Tanabe, 1994
  • Pocockia Silvestri, 1895
  • Reginaterreuma Mauriès, 1987
  • Schedotrigona Silvestri, 1903

References

  1. [1]
    Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015-01-01). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 9789004188273.
  2. [2]
    Enghoff, Henrik; Dohle, Wolfgang; Blower, J. Gordon (1993). "Anamorphosis in Millipedes (Diplopoda) — The Present State of Knowledge with Some Developmental and Phylogenetic Considerations". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 109 (2): 103–234. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00305.x.
  3. [3]
    Mauries, Jean-Paul (1987). "Craspedosomid Millipedes Discovered in Australia: Reginaterreuma, Neocambrisoma and Peterjohnsia, New Genera (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Craspedosomida)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 25 (1): 107–133 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. [4]
    Shear, William A. (2002). "The millipede genus Metopidiothrix Attems (Diplopoda : Chordeumatida : Metopidiotrichidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 16 (6): 849–892. doi:10.1071/IS02005. ISSN 1445-5226 – via ResearchGate.
  5. [5]
    "Metopidiotrichidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  6. [6]
    Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  7. [7]
    Sierwald, P.; Spelda, J. (2022). "Millibase". doi:10.14284/370. Retrieved 2020-10-26. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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