Entomobielziidae
Entomobielziidae is a family of millipedes belonging to the order Chordeumatida. This family includes 18 species, including 13 in the genus '' Tianella''. Millipedes in this family are found in Romania, central Asia, and the Himalayas.
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. This genus includes eleven species found in Nepal, one species found in Kazakhstan, and one species found in Kyrgyzstan. This genus is notable for including the only species in the
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Chordeumatida with 29 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last) in adults. Most species in this genus have 29 segments in adults rather than the 30 segments usually observed in this order.
Discovery
This genus was first described by the Austiran
myriapodologist
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Carl Attems
Carl August Graf Attems-Petzenstein (13 October 1868 in Graz, Austria – 19 April 1952 in Vienna) was an Austrian myriapodologist and invertebrate zoologist. He published 138 scientific papers, most of them dealing with his specialist field ...
in 1904 to contain the newly discovered type species '' T. fastigata'', found in Kyrgystan. He described this genus as having the usual 30 segments. The American zoologistWilliam A. Shear described three more species in this genus in 1979, '' T. bobanga'', '' T. lughla'', and '' T. martensi'', all found in Nepal, maintaining the original description of this genus as having 30 segments. In 1979, the Russian myriapodologist Sergei I. Golovatch of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union described another species in this genus, '' T. ornata'', found in Kazahkstan. Golovatch originally described ''T. ornata'' as having 30 segments.
In 1987, Shear described another four species in this genus, all found in Nepal. He found that the smaller two species, '' T. daamsae'' and '' T. mananga'', have only 28 segments as adults, and the larger two, '' T. ausobskyi'' and '' T. gitanga'', have 29 segments as adults, a number never recorded before in the order Chordeumatida. In 1988, the French myriapodologist