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Xystocheirini
Xystocheirini is a tribe of flat-backed millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae. There are about 5 genera and more than 40 described species in Xystocheirini. Genera These five genera belong to the tribe Xystocheirini: * '' Anombrocheir'' Buckett & Gardner, 1969 * ''Motyxia'' Chamberlin, 1941 * ''Parcipromus'' Shelley, 1995 * ''Wamokia ''Wamokia'' is a genus of millipedes belonging to the family Xystodesmidae Xystodesmidae is a family of millipedes. Its members often have very small distributional areas, with many species only known from a single locality. They are found acr ...'' Chamberlin, 1941 * '' Xystocheir'' Cook, 1904 References Further reading * * * * * Polydesmida Articles created by Qbugbot Arthropod tribes {{myriapoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motyxia
''Motyxia'' is a genus of cyanide-producing millipedes (collectively known as Sierra luminous millipedes or motyxias) that are endemic to the southern Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi, and Santa Monica mountain ranges of California. Motyxias are blind and produce the poison cyanide, like all members of the Polydesmida. All species have the ability to glow brightly: some of the few known instances of bioluminescence in millipedes. Description Adult ''Motyxia'' reach 3 to 4 cm in length, 4.5 to 8 mm wide, with 20 body segments, excluding the head. Females are slightly larger than males. Like other polydesmidans ("flat-backed" millipedes) they lack eyes and have prominent paranota (lateral keels). They are typically tan to orange-pink in color (except ''M. pior''), with a dark mid-dorsal line. ''M. pior'' is the most variable in color, and ranges from dark gray to greenish-yellow to bright orange. They lack bumps on the metatergites (the dorsal plates possessing paranota), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xystodesmidae
Xystodesmidae is a family of millipedes. Its members often have very small distributional areas, with many species only known from a single locality. They are found across the northern hemisphere, with peak diversity in the Appalachian Mountains, where one-third of the 300 or so species occur. They are particularly abundant in deciduous broadleaf forests in the Mediterranean Basin, Africa, Asia, Central and North America, and Russia. Information on basic taxonomy is scant for this family; for example, it is estimated that the genus ''Nannaria'' contains over 200 species, but only 25 were described as of 2006. By 2022, 78 species in ''Nannaria'' have been described. Xystodesmidae contains many colorful and distinctive species, including '' Apheloria virginiensis'' of the eastern U.S. and '' Harpaphe haydeniana'' of the western U.S. The Sierra luminous millipedes of the genus ''Motyxia'' exhibit the only known examples of bioluminescence in the Polydesmida. Species of ''Apheloria'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xystocheir
''Xystocheir'' is a genus of millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae. The genus is endemic to California in the United States, where it is distributed in the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada.Shelley, R. M., et al. (2014)Variation and pigmentation in the milliped, ''Xystocheir brachymacris'' Shelley, 1996, from the northern Sierra Nevada foothills, California, USA (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae: Xystocheirini).''Insecta Mundi'' 2014 0371. Since a 1996 revision there have been 9 species classified in the genus:Shelley, R. M. (1996)Revision of the milliped genus ''Xystocheir'' Cook (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae).''Canadian Journal of Zoology'' 74(7) 1336-63.''Xystocheir''. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). *'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flat-backed Millipede
Polydesmida (from the Greek ''poly'' "many" and ''desmos'' "bond") is the largest order of millipedes, containing approximately 3,500 species, including all the millipedes reported to produce hydrogen cyanide (HCN). Description Members of the order Polydesmida are also known as "flat-backed millipedes", because on most species, each body segment has wide lateral keels known as paranota. These keels are produced by the posterior half (metazonite) of each body ring behind the collum. Polydesmids have no eyes, and vary in length from . Many of the larger species show bright coloration patterns which warn predators of their toxic secretions. Adults usually have 20 segments, counting the collum as the first ring and the telson as the last ring. Juveniles have from 7 to 19 rings. In species with the usual 20 segments, adult females have 31 pairs of legs, but in adult males, the eighth leg pair (the first leg pair of the 7th ring) is modified into a single pair of gonopods, leaving o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anombrocheir
''Anombrocheir'' is a genus of millipedes belonging to the family Xystodesmidae Xystodesmidae is a family of millipedes. Its members often have very small distributional areas, with many species only known from a single locality. They are found across the northern hemisphere, with peak diversity in the Appalachian Mountains, .... The species of this genus are found in Western North America. Species: *'' Anombrocheir bifurcata'' *'' Anombrocheir spinosa'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q6447784 Xystodesmidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parcipromus
''Parcipromus'' is a genus of millipedes belonging to the family Xystodesmidae Xystodesmidae is a family of millipedes. Its members often have very small distributional areas, with many species only known from a single locality. They are found across the northern hemisphere, with peak diversity in the Appalachian Mountains, .... The species of this genus are found in western North America. Species The following species are recognised in the genus ''Parcipromus'': *'' Parcipromus cooki'' *'' Parcipromus gigantoarboricolus'' *'' Parcipromus tiemanni'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10620163 Xystodesmidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wamokia
''Wamokia'' is a genus of millipedes belonging to the family Xystodesmidae Xystodesmidae is a family of millipedes. Its members often have very small distributional areas, with many species only known from a single locality. They are found across the northern hemisphere, with peak diversity in the Appalachian Mountains, .... The species of this genus are found in Western North America. Species: *'' Wamokia dentata'' *'' Wamokia discordis'' *'' Wamokia falcata'' *'' Wamokia hoffmani'' *'' Wamokia placerna'' *'' Wamokia remota'' *'' Wamokia sierrae'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10719241 Xystodesmidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polydesmida
Polydesmida (from the Greek language, Greek ''poly'' "many" and ''desmos'' "bond") is the largest order (biology), order of millipedes, containing approximately 3,500 species, including all the millipedes reported to produce hydrogen cyanide (HCN). Description Members of the order Polydesmida are also known as "flat-backed millipedes", because on most species, each body segment has wide lateral keels known as paranota. These keels are produced by the posterior half (metazonite) of each body ring behind the collum (millipedes), collum. Polydesmids have no eyes, and vary in length from . Many of the larger species show bright coloration patterns which warn predators of their toxic secretions. Adults usually have 20 segments, counting the collum as the first ring and the telson as the last ring. juvenile (organism), Juveniles have from 7 to 19 rings. In species with the usual 20 segments, adult females have 31 pairs of legs, but in adult males, the eighth leg pair (the first leg pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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