Additional Resources

A list of resources compiled by Graham Proudlove (BMIG Resources Officer) November 2018

Printed material

1. Myriapoda and Isopda

Introduction

This section covers resources which are releavant to more than one, but not necesserily all, of the four myriapod clades. Following sections cover the four clades in turn with resources which are specifically addressed at that clade.

               Text books

Ruppert, E.E., Fox, R.S. and Barnes, R.D. 2004. Myriapoda. Pages 702-722 in: Ruppert, E.E., Fox, R.S. and Barnes, R.D. Invertebrate Zoology: A functional evolutioary approach. Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, Belmont.       

Richards, P. 2011. An introduction to centipedes, millipedes and woodlice. British Myriapod and Isopod Group. pdf file only.

               Morphology and anatomy

Demange, J.-M. 1967. Recherches sur la segmentation du tronc des Chilopodes et des Diplopodes Chilognathes (Myriapodes). Memoires du Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle New Series A 44:1-188.

G.D. Edgecombe, G.D. 2004. Morphological data, extant Myriapoda, and the myriapod stem-group. Contributions to Zoology 73:207–252

Edgecombe, G. and Sombke, A. (eds.) 2014. Morphology and evolution of Myriapoda. Arthropod Structure and Development 43:1-96.

The whole issue is devoted to these topics within the Myriapod orders and there are seven varied papers.

Manton, S.M. 1977. The Arthropoda. Habits, functional morpholoy and evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 527 pages. ISBN 0-19-857391-x.

A classic, unparalleled and monumental study of functional morphology across the whole phylum. Critical reading but don’t believe the phylogenetic inferences! And dedicated to our own Gordon Blower!

Minelli, A. (ed.) 2011.The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, taxonomy, biology. Brill, Leiden and Boston, 530 pages. ISBN 978-90-04-15611-1.

After an introductory chapter in phylogenetic relationships within the Myriapoda, this volume is devoted to an in-depth account of the Chilopoda in 19 chapters, plus one chapter each on the Symphyla and Pauropoda.

Minelli, A. (ed.) 2015. The Myriapoda. Volume 2. Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, taxonomy, biology. Brill, Leiden and Boston, 500 pages. ISBN 978-90-04-156128-?.

An in-depth account of the Diplopoda.

Sombke, A. and Edgecombe, G. 2014. Morphology and evolution of Myriapoda. Arthropod Structure and Development 43: 3-4.

An introduction to the special volume on Myriapoda.

               Biodiversity informatics and cybertaxonomy      

Melzer, R.R., Friedrich, S., Ritzerfeld, M., Bohn, J. and Spelda, J. 2011. GLOMYRIS and TYMUNAC: Myriapoda and Acari databases of the GBIF-D node invertebrates II. Spixiana 34:11-20. [dx.doi.org/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx].

Describes the important and very useful SysMyr database which can be searched by geographic region and taxonomic terms.

Spelda, J. 2005. The GloMyrIS project of GBIF: Database structure and data exchange. Peckiana 4:91-100.

Spelda, J., Rosenberg, J. and Voigtlander, K. 2003. The German myriapod literature project (GERMYTLIT). African Invertebrates 44:325-330.

               Methods

Tuf, I.H., Chmelík, V., Dobroruka, I., Hábová L., Hudcová, P., Šipoš. J. and Stašiov. S. 2015. Hay-bait traps are a useful tool for sampling of soil dwelling millipedes and centipedes. In: Tuf, I.H. and Tajovský, K. (Eds) Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Myriapodology, Olomouc, Czech Republic. ZooKeys 510:197–207. doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.510.9020.

               Phylogenetics and evolution

Edgecombe, G.D. 2011. Phylogenetic relationships of Myriapoda. Pages 1-20 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, taxonomy, biology: The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Brill, Leiden and Boston.

Fernandez, R., Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. 2018. Phylogenomics illuminates the backbone of the Myriapoda Tree of Life and reconciles morphological and molecular phylogenies Scientific Reports 8:83. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18562-w2.

Giribet, G. and Edgecombe, G.D. 2012. Reevaluating the arthropod tree of life. Annual Review of Entomology 57:167–86.

Rehm, P., Meusemann, K., Borner, J., Misof, B. and Burmester, T. 2014. Phylogenetic position of Myriapoda revealed by 454 transcriptome sequencing. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 77:25-33.

Shear, W.A. and Edgecombe, G.D. 2010. The geological record and phylogeny of the Myriapoda. Arthropod Structure and Delelopment 39:174-190.

               Biogeography and distribution

Adis, J. and Harvey, M.S. 2000. How many Arachnida and Myriapoda are there world-wide and in Amazonia? Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 35:139–141.

Barber, A.D. 2005. Recording distribution and habitat preferences for myriapods in the British Isles. Peckiana 4:15-34.

Stoev, P., Zapparoli, M., Golovatch, S., Enghoff , H., Akkari, N. and Barber, A. 2010. Myriapods (Myriapoda). Chapter 7.2. In: Roques, A. et al. (eds) Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe. BioRisk 4: 97–130. doi.org/10.3897/biorisk.4.51.

               Endocrinology

 

Joly, R. and Descamps, M. 1988. Endocrinology of myriapods. Pp. 429-449 in: Laufer, H. and Downer, G.H. (eds.) Endocrinology of selected invertebrate types. New York, USA; Alan R. Liss, Inc. (ISBN: 0898-5855)

Juberthie-Jupeau, L. 1983. Neurosecretory systems and neurohemal organs of Myriapoda. Pp. 204-278 in: Gupta, A.P. (ed.): Neurohemal organs of arthropods. Their development, evolution, structures, and functions. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield.

               Reproduction and development

Brena, C. 2015. Myriapoda. Pp. 141-189 in: Wanninger, A. (ed.) Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 3. Ecdysozoa I: Non-Tetraconata. Springer, Vienna. doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-1865-8.

Demange, J.-M. 1988. Arthropoda - Myriapoda. In: Adiyodi, K.G. and Adiyodi, R.G. (Eds). Reproductive biology of invertebrates. Volume 3. Accessory sex glands. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, New York, 518 pages.

Demange, J.-M. 1996. La reproduction des mille-pattes. Millepattia 5:1-27.

               Collections

Beccaloni, J. 2012. The Arachnida and Myriapoda collections at the Natural History Museum, past and present. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15:303 – 312.

Le Bras. G., Geoffroy, J.-J., Albenga L. and Mauries J.-P. 2015. The Myriapoda and Onychophora collection (MY) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN, Paris). Zookeys 518:139-153.

Proudlove, G.S. and Logunov, D. 2011. Myriapodological resources in the Manchester Museum. Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group 25:14-36.

Descibes in broad outline the various resources related to Myriapoda in the Manchester Museum (UK). These are principally the spirit and literature collections of H.K. and S.G. Brade-Birks and of J. Gordon Blower. A collection made by Verhoeff is also in this collection.

Captive breeding

McMonigle and Hoffman 2012. Millipeds in Captivity: Diplopodan Husbandry and Reproductive Biology (Millipede Husbandry).

McGonigle 2019. Isopod Zoology: Biology, Husbandry, Species, and Cultivars.

McGonigle 2013. Pillbugs and Other Isopods: Cultivating Vivarium Clean-Up Crews and Feeders for Dart Frogs, Arachnids, and Insects.

McGonigle 2014. Centipedes in Captivity: The Reproductive Biology and Husbandry of Chilopoda.

McGonigle no date Giant Centipedes The Enthusiast's Handbook.

               Conservation

Lee, P. 2015. A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda), centipedes (Chilopoda) and woodlice (Isopoda) of Great Britain. Species Status No.23. xxxxxxxxxxxxx. 170 pages.

               Journals

Myriapodologica (ISSN 0163-5395) www.vmnh.net/myriapodologica

Myriapodologica contains papers on the taxonomy and evolution of the four classes of "myriapod" arthropods. A volume consisted of 10 to 15 separate papers, numbered and paged consecutively. The last published volume was 9 for 2007-2008.

International Journal of Myriapodology

Anderson Norway in pdfs

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               Text books

Demange, J.-M. 1981. Les Mille-Pattes, Myriapodes. Généralites, morphologie, ecologie, détermination des espèces de France. Sociéte Nouvelle des Éditions Boubée, Paris, 284 pages. ISBN 2-85004-021-5.

Hoffman, R.L. 1999. Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Pubication 8 etc [Where to place this?]

Hopkin, S.P. and Read, H.J. 1992. The biology of millipedes. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 233 pages. ISBN 0-19-857699-4.

Minelli, A. (ed.) 2015. The Myriapoda. Volume 2. Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, taxonomy, biology. Brill, Leiden and Boston, 500 pages. ISBN 978-90-04-15612-8. An in-depth account of the Diplopoda.

Richards, P. 2011. An introduction to millipedes. British Myriapod and Isopof Group. pdf file only.

Spelda, J. 2015. Class Diplopoda. Order Julida. Manual. Revista IDE@ - SEA, nº 27B:1–17. ISSN 2386-7183 1. [Where to place?]

Spelda [MORE]

                              Identification

Blower, J.G. 1985. Millipedes. Keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British Fauna 35:1-242.

The standard identification guide but long out of print.

Millipeet key

               Biogeography and distribution

Barber, A.D. 2009. Littoral myriapods: a review. Soil Organisms 81:735-760.

Dooge Ireland

Enghoff, H. 2015. Diplopoda – Geographical distribution. Pp. 329-336 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Golovatch, S.I. and Kime, R.D. 2009. Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review. Soil Organisms 81:565-597.

See also Kime and Enghoff (2011).

Kime, R.D. 1978. The Distribution of Millipedes in the South of England - A Preliminary Survey. Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 21/22:135-147.

Kime, R.D. 2001. The continental distribution of British and Irish millipedes. Part 1. Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group 17:7-42.

Kime, R.D. 2001. The continental distribution of British and Irish millipedes. Part 2. Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group 17:7-42.

Kime, R.D. and Enghoff, H. 2011. Atlas of European miilipedes (Class Diplopoda). Volume 1. Orders Polyxenida, Glomerida, Platydesmida, Siphonocryptida, Polyzoiida, Callipodida, Polydesmida. Co-published by Pensoft Publishers, Sofia and the European Invertebrate Survey, Leiden, 282 pages. ISBN 978-954-642-578-2.

See also Golovatch and Kime (2009).

Lee, P. 2006. Atlas of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Britain and Ireland. Pensoft Sofia, 216 pages. ISBN 978-954-642-277-4.

Shelley, R.M. and Golovatch, S.I. 2011. Atlas of myriapod biogeography. 1. Indigenous ordinal and supra-ordinal distributions of the Diplopoda: Perspectives on taxon origins and ages, and a hypothesis on the origin and early evulotion of the class. Insecta Mundi 0158:1-134.

               Collections

Sierwald, P. and Reft, A.J. 2004. The millipede collections of the world. Fieldiana Zoology (N.S.) 103:1-100.

               Systematics, taxonomy and nomeclature

Akkari, N., Enghoff, H., and Metscher, B.D. 2015. A new dimension in documenting new species: High-detail imaging for myriapod taxonomy and first 3D cybertype of a new millipede species (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae). PLoS ONE 10(8):e0135243. [dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135243].

Blanke, A. and Wesener, T. 2014. Revival of forgotten characters and modern imaging techniques help to produce a robust phylogeny of the Diplopoda (Arthropoda, Myriapoda). Arthropod Structure and Development 43:63-75.

Enghoff, H., Petersen, G. and Seberg, O. 2011. Phylogenetic relationships in the millipede Family Julidae. Cladistics 27:6060616.

Enghoff, H., Petersen, G. and Seberg, O. 2013. The aberant millipede genus Pteridoiuilus and its position in a revised molecular phylogeny of the family Julidae (Diplopoda: Julida). Invertebrate Systematics 27:515-529.

Hoffman, R.L. 1979. Classification of the Diplopoda. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneve, 237 pages.

Hoffman, R.L. 1999. Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America.  Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8, 584 pp.

Jeekel, C.A.W. 1971. Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 5:1-412.

Usually considered to be the most important publication on Millipede taxonomy. Now accompanied by Shelley et al. (2000) and Shelley and Golovatch (2015).

Shear, W. 2011. Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. Zootaxa 3148:159-164.

Sierwald, P., Shear, W.A., Shelley, R.M. and Bond, J.E. 2003. Millipede phylogeny revisited in the light of the enigmatic order Siphoniulida. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 41:87-99.

Shelley, R.M. 2003. A revised, annotated, family-level classification of the Diplopoda. Arthropoda Selecta 11:187-207.

Shelley, R.M. 2007. Taxonomy of extant Diplopoda (Millipeds) in the modern era: Perspectives for future advancements and observations on the global diplopod community (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). Zootaxa 1668: 343–362.

Shelley, R.M., Sierwald, P., Kiser, S.B. and Golovatch, S.I. 2000. Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum II. A list of the genus and family group names in the Class Diplopoda from 1958 through 1999. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, 167 pages. ISBN 954-642-107-3.

Shelley, R.M. and Golovatch, S.I. 2015. Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum III. A list of the genus-, family-, and ordinal-group names proposed in the Class Diplopoda from 1 January 2000 – 31 December 2014. Arthropoda Selecta 24:1–26.

               Morphology and anatomy

Wirkner, C.S. and Xylander, W.R. 2015. Diplopoda – Circulatory system. Pp. 153-160 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Enghoff, H., Dohle, W. and Blower, J.G. 1993. Anamorphosis in millipedes (Diplopoda). The present state of knowledge with some developmental and phylogenetic considerations. Zooloical Journal of the Linnean Society 109:103-234.

Hilken, G., Sombke, A., Muller, C.H.G. and Rosenberg, J. 2015. Diplopoda – Tracheal system. Pp. 129-152 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Janssen, R., Prpic, N.-M. and Damen, W.G.M 2006. A review of the correlation of tergites, sternites, and leg pairs in diplopods. Frontiers in Zoology 3:2. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-3-2

Koch, M. 2015. Diplopoda – General morphology. Pp. 7-67 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Makarov, S.E. 2015. Diplopoda – Integument. Pp. 69-99 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Manton, S.M. 1977. The Arthropoda. Habits, functional morphology and evolution. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 527 pages. Still the most authoritative and detailed survey acros the phylum. Chapter 8 (53) pages on Myriapoda.

Müller, C.H.G., Sombke, A. and Rosenberg, J. 2007. The fine structure of the eyes of some bristly millipedes (Penicillata, Diplopoda): additional support for the homology of mandibulate ommatidia. Arthropod Structure and Development 36:463–476.

Tadler, A. 1996. Functional morphology of genitalia of four species of julidan millipedes (Diplopoda: Nemasomatidae; Julidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 118:83 -97.

Tadler, A. and Thaler, K. 1993. Genitalmorphologie, Taxonomie und geographische Verbreitung ostalpiner Polydesmida (Diplopoda: Helminthomorpha). Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 120:71-128.

Santamaria, S., Enghoff, H. and Reboleira, A.S.P.S. 2016. Hidden biodiversity revealed by collections-based research  - Laboulbeniales in millipedes: genus Rickia. Phytotaxa 243:101-127. dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.243.2.1

               Biomechanics

Garcia, A., Priya, S. and Marek, P. 2015. Understanding the locomotion and dynamic controls for millipedes: part 1 - kinematic analysis of millipede movements. Proceedings of the ASME 2015 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems. September 21-23, 2015, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Koch, M. 2015. Diplopoda – Skeletomuscular system and locomation. Pp. 101-107 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

               Physiology

Fontanetti, C.S., Moreira-De-Sousa, C., Penheiro, T.G., Souza, R.B. and Francisco, A. 2015. Diplopoda – Digestive system. Pp. 109-127 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Muller, C.H.G. and Sombke, A. 2015. Diplopoda – Sense organs. Pp. 181-235 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Shear, W.A. 2015. The chemical defences of millipedes (Diplopoda): biochemistry, physiology and ecology. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 61:78-117.

Sombke, A. and Rosenberg, J. 2015. Diplopoda – Nervous and neuroendocrine systems.. Pp. 161-179 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

               Phylogenetics and evolution

Brewer, M.S. and Bond, J.E. 2013. Ordinal-level phylogenomics of the Arthropod Class Diplopoda (millipedes) based on an analysis of 221 nuclear protein-coding loci generated using Next-Generation sequence analysis. PloS ONE 8(11): e79935. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079935

Brewer, M.S., Sierwald, P. and Bond, J.E. 2012. Millipede taxonomy after 250 years: classification and taxonomic practices in a mega-diverse but understudied arthropod group. PLoS ONE 7(5): e37240. doi:

Brewer, M.S., Swafford, L., Spruill, C.L. and Bond, J.E. 2013. Arthropod phylogenetics in light of three novel millipede (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) mitochondrial geneomeswith commnets on the appropriateness of mitochondrial genome sequence data for inferring deel level relationships. PLoS One 8(7):68005.

Edgecombe, G.D. 2015. Diplopoda – Phylogenetic relationships. Pp. 353-362 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Sierwald, P. and Bond, J.E. 2007. Current status of the myriapod Class Diplopoda (millipedes): Taxonomic diversity and phylogeny. Annual Review of Entomology 52:401–20.

               Genetics and genomics

Kenny, N.J., Shen, X., Chan, T.K.H., Wong, N.W.Y., Chan, T.F., Chu, K.H., Lam, H.M. and Hui, J.H.L. 2015. Genome of the Rusty Millipede, Trigoniulus corallinus, illuminates diplopod, myriapod and arthropod evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution 7:1280-1295. [doi: 10.1093/gbe/evv070]

               Reproduction, development and life history

Blower, J.G. and Gabbutt, P.D. 1964. Studies on the millipedes of a Devon oak wood. Proceedings of the  Zoological Society of London 143:143-176.

Blower, J.G. and Fairhurst, C.P. 1968. Notes on the life-history and ecology of Tachypodoiulus niger (Diplopoda, Julidae) in Britain. Journal of Zoology 156:257-271.

Blower, J.G. and Miller, P.F. 1974. The life-cycle and ecology of Ophyiulus pilosus (Newport) in Britain.

Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 32:503-525.

Dohle various

Dove, H. and Stollerwork, A. 2003. Comparative analysis of neurogenesis in the myriapod Glomeris merginata (Diplopoda) suggets more similarities to chelicerates than to insects. Development 130:2161-2171.

Janssen, R., Prpic, N.M. and Damen, W.G. 2004. Gene expression suggests decoupled dorsal and ventral segmentation in the millipede Glomeris marginata (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). Developmental Biology 268:89-104.

McMonigle, O. 2012. Millipeds in Captivity: Diplopodan Husbandry and Reproductive Biology. Coachwhip Publications, Ohio, 116 pages.

Minelli, A. 2015. Diplopoda – Development. Pp. 267-302 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Minelli, A. and Michalik, P. 2015. Diplopoda – Reproduction. Pp. 237-265 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Sahli numerous

Tadler, A. and Thaler, K. 1993. Genitalmorphologie, Taxonomie und geographische Verbreitungostalpiner Polydesmida (Diplopoda, Helminthomorpha). Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 120:71-128.

               Ecology

Blower various

David, J.-F. 2015. Diplopoda – Ecology. Pp. 303-327 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Chemical Ecology of Cave-Dwelling Millipedes: Defensive

Secretions of the Typhloiulini (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)

Slobodan E. Makarov1 & Michaela Bodner2 & Doris Reineke2 & Ljubodrag V. Vujisić3 &

Marina M. Todosijević3 & Dragan Ž. Antić1 & Boyan Vagalinski 4 & Luka R. Lučić1 &

Bojan M. Mitić1 & Plamen Mitov5 & Boban D. Anđelković3 & Sofija Pavković Lucić1 &

Vlatka Vajs6 & Vladimir T. Tomić1 & Günther Raspotnig2,7

J Chem Ecol (2017) 43:317–326

DOI 10.1007/s10886-017-0832-1

               Fossils

Edgecombe, G.D. 2015. Diplopoda – Fossils. Pp. 337-351 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

Wilson, H.M. and Anderson, L.I. 2004. Morphology and taxonomy of Paleozoic millipedes (Diplopoda: Chilognatha: Archipolypoda) from Scotland. Journal of Paleontology 78:169-184.

               Literature

http://www.polydesmida.info/millipedesofaustralia/bibliography.html

Contains links to public domain literature and is useful for all myriapodologists, not just those interested in the Australian fauna.

               History

Minelli, A. 2015. Diplopoda – an outline of research history. Pp. 1-6 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

 

Millipeds in Captivity: Diplopodan Husbandry and Reproductive Biology (Millipede Husbandry)

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Published by Frankfurt: Edition Chimaira, 2010. (2010)

ISBN 10: 3899734890 ISBN 13: 9783899734898

               Order Polyxenida

Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M. and Geoffroy, J.-J. 2003. A revised comprehensive checklist, relational database, and taxonomic system of reference for the bristly millipedes of the world (Diplopoda, Polyxenida). African Invertebrates 44:89-101.

Short, M. 2015. Diplopoda – Taxonomic overview: Subclass Penicillata, Order Polyxenida. Pp. 364-369 in Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology, The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden.

               Order Glomeridesmida

               Order Glomerida

Wilbrandt. J., Lee, P., Read, H. and Wesener, T. 2015. A first integrative study of the identity and origins of the British dwarf pill Millipede populations, Trachysphaera cf. lobata (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3:e5176. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5176.

Reip, H.W. and Wesener, T. 2018. Intraspecific variation and phylogeography of the millipede model organism, the Black Pill Millipede Glomeris marginata (Villers 1789) (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae). ZooKeys 741:93–131. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.741.21917

Oeyen, J.P and Wesener, T. 2018. A first phylogenetic analysis of the pill millipedes of the order Glomerida, with a special assessment of mandible characters (Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Pentazonia). Arthropod Structure & Development 47 (2018) 214e228

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2018.02.005

               Order Sphaerotheriida

               Order Platydesmida

               Order Polyzoniida

               Order Siphonocrytptida

               Order Polydesmida

Simonsen, A. 1990. Phylogeny and biogeography of the millipede order Polydesmida, with special emphasis on the suborder Polydesmidea. Ph.D. thesis, University of Bergen.

               Order Stemmiulida

               Order Callipodida

               Order Chordeumatida

               Order Siphonulida

               Order Julida

Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda)

Richard Desmond KIME 1 & Henrik ENGHOFF 2,* European Journal of Taxonomy 346: 1–299 ISSN 2118-9773

https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.346

               Order Spirobolida

               Order Spirostreptida            

3. Chilopoda http://phylopic.org/assets/images/submissions/7e73ef98-7333-461d-8e3f-8f12c8d57e2d.thumb.png

               Text books

Minelli (2011)

Lewis, J.G.E. 1981. The biology of centipedes.  University of Cambridge Press, Cambridge, 476 pages.

Richards, P. pdf 

Rosenberg, J. 2009. Die Hundertfüßer: Chilopoda. Westarp Wissenschaften, Hohenwarsleben, 524 pages.

If you can read German this is by far the best text currently available on the Chilopoda as a whole.

               Identification

Barber, A.D. 2008. Key to the Identification of British Centipedes. AIDGAP Series, Field Studies Council, Shrewsbury, 96 pages.

Barber, A.D. 2009. Centipedes. Synopses of the British Fauna (N.S.) 58:1-228.

Eason, E.H. 1964. Centipedes of the British Isles. Frederick Warne and Co.Ltd., London, 294 pages.

Out of print but available in pdf format from Pisces Conservation and the Natural History Book Service.

Iorio, E. 2006. La faune des chilopodes du Massif Armoricain: Biologie, liste préliminaire et détermination des espèces (Chilopoda). Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 7.

Iorio, E. 2014.  Catalogue biogéographique et taxonomique des chilopodes (Chilopoda) de France métropolitaine. Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 15.

Iorio, E. and Labroche, A. 2015. Les chilopodes de la moitié nord de la France. Gretia, Rennes, 108 pages.

Stoev, P. 2002. A catalogue and key to the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Bulgaria. Pensoft, Sofia.

               Biogeography and distribution

Barber, A.D. and Keay, A.N. 1988. Provisional atlas of the Centipedes of the British Isles. Biological Records Center, Natural Environment Research Council, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monkwood Experimental Station Huntington: 1-127. ISBN: 1-870393-08-2.

Bonato, L., Bevilacqua, S. and Minelli, A. 2009. An outline of the geographical distribution of world Chilopoda. Contributions to Natural History 12:489-503.

Bonato, L. amd Zapparoli, M 2011. Chilopoda – Geographical distribution. Pp. 327-337 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) 2011. The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, taxonomy, biology. Brill, Leiden and Boston.

Cawley, M. 2010. A review of the Irish centipedes (Chilopoda).  Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 34:18-64. ISSN 0032-1185.

Tuf, I.H., Kopecký, O., Mikula, J. 2017. Can montane and cave centipedes inhabit soil? Turkish Journal of Zoology 41:375-378.

               Biodiversity informatics and cybertaxonomy      

Bonato, L., Lopresti, M., Minelli, A. and Cerretti, P. 2014. ChiloKey, an interactive identification tool for the geophilomorph centipedes of Europe (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha). ZooKeys 443:1–9. doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.443.7530. PMID: 25349493.

Stoev, P., Akkari, N., Zapparoli, M., Porco, D., Enghoff, H., Edgecombe, G.D., Georgiev. T. and Penev, L. (2010). The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff , 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with a key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group. ZooKeys 50: 29–77. doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.50.504.

               Ecology

Tuf, I.H. 2015. Different collecting methods reveal different ecological groups of centipedes (Chilopoda). Zoologia 32:345–350. doi.org/10.1590/S1984-46702015000500003.

Voightlander, K. 2011. Chilopoda – Ecology. Pp. 309-325 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

               Systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature

Bonato, L. and Minelli, A. 2014. Chilopoda Geophilomorpha of Europe: A revised list of species, with taxonomic and nomenclatorial notes. Zootaxa 3770:1-136. doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3770.1.1. Essential for anyone working at any level with Geophilomorph centipedes. Includes two appendices which are critical to the text.  

Jeekel, C.A.W. 2005. Nomenclator generum et familiarum Chilopodorum: A list of the genus- and family-group names in the Class Chilopoda from the 10th edition of Linneaus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Myriapod Memoranda Supplement 1:1-130.

Minelli, A. 2011a. Chilopoda – Introduction: Diagnosis. P.21 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Minelli, A. 2011b. Class Chilopoda, Class Symphyla and Class Pauropoda. Zootaxa 3148:157-158.

Stoev, P., Komerički, A., Akkari, N., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Weigand, A., Hostens, J., Hunter, C., Edmunds, S., Porco, D., Zapparoli, M., Georgiev, T., Mietchen, D., Roberts, D., Faulwetter, S., Smith, V. and Penev, L. 2013. Eupolybothrus cavernicolus Komerički and Stoev sp. n. (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae): the first eukaryotic species description combining transcriptomic, DNA barcoding and micro-CT imaging data. Biodiversity Data Journal 1:e1013. doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e1013.

Shelley, R.M. 2006. Nomenclator generum et familiarum Chilopodorum II: A list of the genus- and family-group names in the Class Chilopoda from 1958 through 2005. Zootaxa 1198:1-20.

               Morphology and anatomy

Applegarth, A.G. 1952. The anatomy of the cephalic region of a centipede Pseudolithobius megaloporus (Stuxberg) (Chilopoda). Microentomology 17:127-171.

Baiocco, M., Bonato, L., Cardini A. and Fusco G. 2017. Shape variation of prey-catching structures in geophilomorph centipedes: a preliminary investigation using geometric morphometrics. Zoologischer Anzeiger 268:11-18.

Bonato, L., Edgecombe, G.D., Lewis, J.G.E., Minelli, A., Pereira, L.A., Shelley, R.M., Zapparoli, M. 2010. A common terminology for the external anatomy of centipedes (Chilopoda). ZooKeys 69:17-51. [dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.69.737].

The last word on external anatomy.

Fahlander, K. 1938. Beiträge zur Anatomie und systematischen Einteilung der Chilopoden. Zoologiska Bijdrag från Uppsala 17:1-148.

Hilken, G., Muller, C.H.G., Sombke, A., Wirkner, C.S. and Rosenberg, J. 2011. Chilopoda – Tracheal system. Pp. 137-155 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Jangi, B.S. 1966. Scolopendra. (The Indian centipede). The Indian Zoological Memoirs on Indian animal types 9:1-109.

Manton, S.M. 1954.

Manton, S.M. 1956.

Meinert, F.V.A. 1883. Caput Scolopendrae. The head of Scolopendra and its muscular system. Hagerup, Copenhagen.

Minelli, A. 1993. Chilopoda. Pages 57-114 in: Harrison, F.W. and Rice, M.E. (eds.) Microscopic anatomy of invertebrates, Volume 12: Onychophora, Chilopoda, and Lesser Protostomata. Wiley-Liss, New York.

Minelli, A. 2011. Chilopoda – Musculature and locomotion. Pp. 113-119 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Minelli, A. and Koch, M. 2011. Chilopoda – General morphology. Pp. 43-66 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Müller, C.H.G. and Rosenberg, J. 2009. Morphology is still an indispensable discipline in zoology: facts and gaps from Chilopoda. Soil Organisms 81:387–398.

Muller, C.H.G., Sombke, A., Hilken, G. and Rosenberg, J., 2011. Chilopoda – Sense organs. Pp. 235-278 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Rilling, G. 1960. Zur Anatomie des braunen Steinläufers, Lithobius forficatus L. (Chilopoda). Skelettmuskelsystem, peripheres Nervensystem und Sinnesorgane des Rumpfes. Zoologische Jahrbücher / Abteilung für Anatomie und Ontogenie der Tiere 78:39-128.

Rilling, G. 1968. Lithobius forficatus. Großes zoologisches Praktikum 13:1-136.

Rosenberg, J. and Müller, C. 2009. Morphology in Chilopoda – a survey. Soil Organisms 81:1–55. [dx.doi.org/xxxxxxxxxxxxx]. plus CD appendix

Rosenberg, J., Muller, C.H.G. and Hilken, G. 2011. Chilopoda – Integument and associated organs. Pp. 67-111 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Sombke, A., Lipke, E., Kenning, M., Müller, C.H.G., Hansson, B.S. and Harzsch, S. 2012. Comparative analysis of deutocerebral neuropils in Chilopoda (Myriapoda): implications for the evolution of the arthropod olfactory system and support for the Mandibulata concept. BMC Neuroscience 13:1. www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/13/1

Wirkner, C.S., Hilken, G. and Rosenberg, J. 2011. Chilopoda – Circulatory system. Pp. 157-176 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

               Physiology

Brade-Birks, H.K. and Brade-Birks, S.G. 1920. Notes on Myriapoda XX. Luminous Chilopoda, with special reference to Geophilus carpophagus Leach. Annals and Magazine of Natural History  9(5):1-30.

Koch, M., Muller, C.H.M., Hilken, G. and Rosenberg, J. 2011. Chilopoda – Digestive system. Pp. 121-136 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Minelli, A. 1978. Secretion of centipedes. Pp. 73-85 in: Bettini, S. (ed.) Arthropod venoms. Handbook of experimental pharmacology 48. Springer, Berlin.

Rosenberg, J., Sombke, A. and Hilken, G. and 2011. Chilopoda – Excretory system. Pp. 177-195 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Rosenberg, J., Muller, C.H.G. and Hilken, G. and 2011. Chilopoda – Endocrine system. Pp. 197-215 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Rosenberg, J. and Meyer-Rochow, V.N. 2009. Luminescent myriapoda: A brief review. Pp. 139-146 in: Meyer-Rochow, V.B. (ed.) Bioluminescence in focus – a collection of illuminating essays. Research Signpost, Trivadrum.

Sombke, A., Rosenberg, J. and Hilken, G. and 2011. Chilopoda – The nervous system. Pp. 217-234 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

               Reproduction, development and life history

Albert, A.M. 1983. Life cycle of Lithobiidae – with a discussion of the r- and K-selection theory. Oecologia 56:272-279.

Andersson, G. 1976. Post-embryonic development of Lithobius forficatus (L.) (Chilopoda: Lithobiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 7:161–168.

Andersson, G. 1978a. An investigation of post-embryonic development of Lithobiidae – Some introductory aspects. Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Hamburg 21/22:63–71.

Andersson, G. 1978b. Post-embryonic development of Lithobius erythrocephalus C. L. Koch (Chilopoda: Lithobiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 9:241–246.

Andersson, G. 1979. On the use of larval characters in the classification of lithobiomorph centipedes (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha). Pp. 73–81 in: Camatini, M. (ed.) Myriapod biology. Academic Press, London.

Andersson, G. 1980. Post-embryonic development of Lithobius melanops Newport (Chilopoda: Lithobiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 11:25–30.

Andersson, G. 1981. Post-embryonic development and geographical variations in Sweden of Lithobius crassipes L. Koch (Chilopoda: Lithobiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 12:437–445.

Andersson, G. 1982a. Post-embryonic development of Lithobius calcaratus C. L. Koch (Chilopoda: Lithobiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 13:435–440.

Andersson, G. 1982b. Post-embryonic development of Lithobius microps Meinert (Chilopoda: Lithobiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 13:89–95.

Andersson, G. 1983. Post-embryonic development of Lithobius curtipes C. L. Koch (Chilopoda: Lithobiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 14:89–95.

Andersson, G. 1984a. Post-embryonic development of Lithobius tenebrosus fennoscandius Lohmander (Chilopoda: Lithobiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 15:1–7.

Andersson, G. 1984b. Post-embryonic development of Lamyctes fulvicornis Meinert (Chilopda: Henicopidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 15:9–14.

Andersson, G. 1990. About the duration of the different stadia in the post-embryonic development of some lithobiomorph species. Pp. 323–335 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Myriapodology. Brill, Leiden.

Heymons, R. 1901. Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Scolopender. Bibliotheca Zoologica 33:1-244.

McMonigle, O. 2014. Centipedes in captivity: The reproductive biology and husbandry of chilopoda. Coachwhip Publications, Ohio.

Minelli, A. 2011. Chilopoda – Reproduction. Pp. 279-294 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Minelli, A. and Sombke, A. 2011. Chilopoda – Development. Pp. 295-308 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Voigtländer, K. 2007. The life cycle of Lithobius mutabilis L. Koch, 1862 (Mytiapoda: Chilopoda). Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55:9-25.

               Phylogenetics and evolution

Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. 2007. Evolutionary biology of centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda). Annual Review of Entomology 52:151–70. doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ento.52.110405.091326.

Edgecombe, G. 2011. Chilopoda – Phylogeny. Pp. 339-354 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Minelli, A., Foddai, D., Pereira, L.A., and Lewis, J.G.E. 2000. The evolution of segmentation of centipede trunk and appendages. Journal of Zoological Systematic and Evolutionary Research 38:103-117.

               Genetics and genomics 

Chipman, A.D., Ferrier, D.E.K and 106 other authors 2014. The first myriapod genome sequence reveals conservative arthropod gene content and genome organisation in the centipede Strigamia maritima. PLOS Biology 12 e1002005, 1-24. doi.org/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

               History

Hilken, G., Minelli, A., Muller, C.H.G., Rosenberg, J., Sombke, A. and Wirkner, C.S. 2011. Chilopoda – Introduction: History of research. Pp. 22-42 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

               Fossils

Edgecombe, G. 2011. Chilopoda – Fossil history. Pp. 355-361 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

 

               Order Scutigeromorpha

Edgecombe, G.D. 2011. Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview: Scutigeromorpha. Pp. 363-370 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

               Order Lithobiomorpha

Farzalieva, G.S., Nefediev, P.S. and Tuf, I.H. 2017. Revision of Disphaerobius Attems, 1926 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha:Lithobiidae:Pterygoterginae), a centipede genus with remarkable sexual dimorphism. Zootaxa 4258:121-137. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4258.2.2.

Zapparoli, M. and Edgecombe, G.D. 2011. Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview: Lithobiomorpha. Pp. 371-389 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

               Order Craterostigmomorpha

Edgecombe, G.D. 2011. Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview: Craterostigmomorpha. Pp. 390-392 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

               Order Scolopendromorpha

Edgecombe, G.D. and Bonato, L. 2011. Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview: Scolopendromorpha. Pp. 392-407 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Plutoniumidae

Bonato, L., Orlando, M., Zapparoli, M., Fusco, H. and Bortolin, F. 2017. New insights into Plutonium, one of the largest and least known European centipedes (Chilopoda): distribution, evolution and morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180:887-909. doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw026.

               Order Geophilomorpha

Bonato, L. 2011. Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview: Geophilomorpha. Pp. 407-443 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Bonato, L., Danyi, L., Socci, A.A. and Minelli, A. 2012. Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis. Zootaxa 3593:1-39.

Bonato, L., Drago, L. and Murienne, J. 2014. Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence. Cladistics 30:485-507.

Bonato, L., Bortolin, F., Drago, L., Orlando, M. and Danyi, L. 2017. Evolution of Strigamia centipedes (Chilopoda): a first molecular assessment of phylogeny and divergence times. Zoologica Scripta 46:486-495.

Stoev, P., Akkari, N., Komerički, A., Edgecombe, G. and Bonato, L. 2015. At the end of the rope: Geophilus hadesi sp. n. the world’s deepest cave-dwelling centipede (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae). Zookeys 501:95-114.

4. Symphyla http://phylopic.org/assets/images/submissions/0ff64746-737d-450b-aba0-50f400a6db82.thumb.png

              General works

Hopkin, S.P. and Roberts, A.W. 1988. Symphyla – the least studied of the most interesting soil animals. Bulletin of the British Myriapod Group 5:28-34.

Szucsich, N. and Scheller, U. 2011. Symphyla. Pp. 445-466 in: Minelli, A. (ed.) Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

               Ecology

Edwards, C. A. T. 1958. The ecology of Symphyla. Part I. Populations. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 1:308-319.

Edwards, C. A. T. 1959. The ecology of Symphyla. II Seasonal soil migration. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 2:257-267.

Edwards, C. A. T. 1961. The ecology of Symphyla. III Factors controlling soil distributions. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 4:239-256.

Michelbacher, A.E. 1938. The biology of the garden centipede, Scutigerella immaculata. Hilgardia 11:55-148.

               Systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature

Edwards, C. A. T. 1959. A revision of the British Symphyla. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 132:403-439.

Minelli, A. 2011. Class Chilopoda, Class Symphyla and Class Pauropoda. Zootaxa 3148:157-158.

               Identification

Edwards, C. A. T. 1959. Keys to the genera of Symphyla. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 44:164-169.

               Morphology and anatomy

Manton, S.M. 1966. Body design in Symphyla and Pauropoda. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 46:103-141.

               Reproduction and development

Tiegs, O.W. 1940. The embryology and affinities of the Symphyla, based on a study of Hanseniella agilis. Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Society 82:1-225.

Tiegs, O.W. 1941.

Tiegs, O.W. 1945. The post-embryonic decelopment of Hanseniella agilis. Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Society 85:191-328.

               Genetics and Genomics

Gai, Y., Song, D., Sun, H., Yang, Q. and Zhou, K. 2008. The complete mitochondrial genome of Symphylella sp. (Myriapoda: Symphyla): extensive gene order rearrangement and evidence in favour of Progoneata. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49:574-5585.

5. Pauropoda http://phylopic.org/assets/images/submissions/ec4b4c1e-40ce-4a7d-8e09-5ab20848a9a5.thumb.png

               General works

Barber, A.D., Blower, J.G. and Scheller, U. 1992. Pauropoda – the smallest myriapods. Bulletin of the British Myriapod Group 8:13-23.

Oliver, P.G. and Amsden, A.F. 1982. The Pauropoda. Nature in Wales 1:33-38.

Scheller, U. 1990. A list of the British Pauropoda with description of a new species of Eurypauropodidae (Myriapoda). Journal of Natural History 24:1179-1195. doi.org/10.1080/00222939000770721.

Scheller, U. 2011. Pauropoda. Pages 467-508 in: Minelli, A. (ed.): Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

               Morphology and anatomy

Manton, S.M. 1966. Body design in Symphyla and Pauropoda. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 46:103-141.

               Systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature

Minelli, A. 2011. Class Chilopoda, Class Symphyla and Class Pauropoda. Zootaxa 3148:157-158.

Scheller, U. 2008. A reclassification of the Pauropoda (Myriapoda). International Journal of Myriapodology 1:1-38. doi.org/10.1163/187525408X316730.

               Reproduction and development

Tiegs, O.W. 1947. The development and affinities of the Pauropoda, based on a study of Pauropus sylvaticus. Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Society 88:165-336.

 

6. Isopoda

               Text books         

Sutton, S.L., Harding, P.T. and Burn, D. 1972. Woodlice. Ginn and Company, London, 143 pages.

The key in this book also published as a separate booklet.

Richards, P. 2011. An introduction to woodlice. British Myriapod and Isopod Group, Dinton Pastures, 120 pages.

               Identification

Hopkin, S. 1991. A key to the woodlice of Britain and Ireland. Field Studies Council, Shrewsbury, 51 pages. Also published in Field Studies 7:599-960.

Hopkin, S. 2003. The Woodlouse name trail. Field Studies Council Occasional Publication 75. Field Studies Council, Shresbury, 2 pages.

Oliver, P.G. and Meechan, C.J. 1993. Woodlice. Synopses of the British Fauna 49. Field Studies Council, Shrewsbury, 136 pages.

Peregrine Productions 2001. Insect Identification plates: Common woodlice. Peregrine Productions, 2 pages.

Séchet, E. and Noël, F. 2015. Catalogue commenté des Crustacés Isopodes terrestres de France métropolitaine (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea). Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 16.

               Biogeography and distribution

Gregory, S. 2009. Woodlice and waterlice (Isopoda: Oniscidea and Asellota) in Britain and Ireland. FSC Publications, Shrewsbury, 175 pages.

Harding, P.T. and Sutton, S.L. 1985. Woodlice in Britain and Ireland: Distribution and habitat. Biological Records Centre, Monks Wood,151 pages.

               Systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature

Kensley, B. and Brusca, R.C. 2001. Isopod systematics and evolution. Crustacean Issues 13. CRC Press, Place, 357 pages. ISBN: 9058093271

Zootaxa

               Biology

Schmalfuss, H. 2003. World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A 654:1-341.

Sfenthourakis, S., de Araujo, P.B., Hornung, E., Schmalfuss, S., Taiti, S. and Szlavecz, K. (eds.) 2003. The biology of terrestrial isopods. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Biology of Terrestrial Isopods. Crustaceana Monograph 2. E.J. Brill, Leiden, 386 pages.

Strus, J., Taiti, S. and Sfenthourakis, S. 2012. Advances in terrestrial isopod biology. Zookeys 176. Zookeys, 296 pages.

               Reproduction

McOnigle, O. 2013. Pillbugs and Other Isopods: Cultivating Vivarium Clean-Up Crews and Feeders for Dart Frogs, Arachnids, and Insects. Coachwhip Publications, Ohio.

               Bibliography

Harding, P.T. 1990. An indexed bibliography of the distribution and ecology of woodlice (Crustacea: Oniscidea) in Great Britain (1830-1986). Isopoda 4:1-32

Schmalfuss, H. and Wolf-Schwenninger, K. 2002. A bibliography of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A 639:1-120.

 

Family Ligiidae (2 species)

Family Trichoniscidae

Family Haplophilosciidae

Family Oniscidae

Family Philosciidae

Family Platyarthridae

Family Porcellioniscidae

Family Armadillidiidae

Family Cylisticidae

Family Trachelipidae

 

Regional

Sri Lanka

http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4061.5.1

 

Internet based resources

Myriapoda and Isopoda

bmig.org.uk/view/resource/bmig-bulletin

7. Myriapoda

BMIG

CIM

myriapodology.org/myrlit

The database can also be searched via its original search page at myriapoden-info.de/MyriaLit/index.html. However this is more cumbersome and not as useful as the present front end and is not recommended.

http://myriapodology.org

http://myriapoden-info.de

Fauna Europea

NBN Gateway

BRC

nadiplochilo

Tasmanian

myriapod@yahoogroups.com

Bull ZN

ICZN books and commission

Nom Zool online

Zooobank

Linn Soc

FSC

Tombio

Network (NBN)

National Forum for Biological Recording (NFBR)

Biological Records Centre (BRC)

BENHS

JNCC

GBIF

Germytlit

Systax.org/en

flickr.com/groups/myriapoda/

http://www.sea-entomologia.org/IDE@/ [MAJOR RESOURCE, BUT NOT MANY IN ENGLISH]

People

Ivan Tuf web page

Paul Marek www.jointedlegs.org

Marek, P.E., and R.M. Shelley. 2004. Diplopoda.org, An online resource for millipedes, online at http://www.diplopoda.org

 

8. Diplopoda

polydesmida.info

polydesmida.info/millipedesofaustralia

polydesmida.info/millipedesofaustralia/key2orders.html

Very useful pages by Bob Mesibov which is useful well beyond its remit of Australia

Millibase

millibase.org

The GloMyrIS Project

The Global Myriapod Information System (GloMyrIS, alluding to the pill millipede Glomeris, or SysMyr) is currently the most valuable resource xxxxxxxxx

www.gbifev2.mwn.de/GloMyrIS/searchh_myr.htm

Full details are provided in Spelda (2005) and Melzer, Friedrich, Ritzerfeld, Bohn and Spelda (2011).

Principle subpages

gbifev2.mwn.de/GloMyrIS/searchl_myr.htm (geographic search)

gbifev2.mwn.de/GloMyrIS/searchh_myr.htm (taxonomic search)

Millipeet

www.fieldmuseum.org/science/special-projects/milli-peet-class-diplopoda/milli-peet-millipedes-made-easy/milli-peet

 

9. Chilopoda

Chilobase

chilobase.bio.unipd.it

Chilokey

www.biologia.unipd.it/chilokey

www.interactive-keys.eu/chilokey

An online key only for the Geophilomorpha of Europe.

 

10. Symphyla

 

11. Pauropda

 

12. Isopoda

World list of Isopoda (including woodlice and waterlice)

nmnh.si.edu/iz/isopod/

 

Physical resources

Physical resources consist of …………

British Myriapod and Isopod Group collections

               The spirit collections

               The British Myriapod and Isopod Group library

The Manchester Museum collections

               Manchester Museum spirit collections

                              Blower collection

                              Brade-Birks collection

                              Verhoeff collection

               The J. Gordon Blower and S.G. and H.K. Brade-Birks library

               The J. Gordon Blower collection of original drawings for the 1985 synopsis (also now available as digitized tiff files)

The Natural History Museum collections

(Beccaloni 2012)

Sheffield

Liverpool

The Oxford Museum collections (including the E. H. Eason collection)

A tentative list of the British species contained in the Eason collection is given below:

Chilopoda:

Geophilomorpha: Haplophilus subterraneus (Shaw); Hydroschendyla submarina (Grube); Schendyla nemorensis (C.L. Koch); Schendyla peyerimhoffi Brolemann & Ribaut; Strigamia crassipes (C.L. Koch); Strigamia acuminata (Leach); Geophilus electricus (Linné); Geophilus carpophagus Leach; Geophilus proximus C.L. Koch; Geophilus insculptus Attems; Geophilus osquidatum Brolemann; Necrophloeophagus flavus (De Geer); Brachygeophilus truncorum (Bergsö & Meinert); Chalandea pinguis (Brolemann).

Scolopendromorpha: Cryptops anomalans Newport; Cryptops hortensis (Donovan).

Lithobiomorpha: Lithobius variegatus Leach; Lithobius forficatus (Linné); Lithobius peregrinus Latzel; Lithobius macilentus L. Koch; Lithobius erythrocephalus C.L. Koch; Lithobius lapidicola Meinert; Lithobius pilicornis Newport; Lithobius calcaratus C.L. Koch; Lithobius crassipes C. L. Koch; Lithobius curtipes C.L. Koch; Lithobius microps Meinert;

Lamyctes fulvicornis Meinert

Diplopoda:

Polyxenus lagurus (Linné); Glomeris marginata (Villers); Nanogona polydesmoides (Leach); Melogona scutellare (Ribaut); Nemasoma varicorne C.L. Koch; Blaniulus guttulatus (Fabicius); Archiboreoiulus pallidus (Brade-Birks); Ommatoiulus sabulosus (Linné); Tachypodoiulus niger (Leach); Cylindroiulus punctatus (Leach); Cylindroiulus latestriatus (Curtis); Cylindroiulus britannicus (Verhoeff); Julus scandinavius Latzel; Brachyiulus pusillus (Leach); Unciger foetidus (C.L. Koch); Polydesmus angustus Latzel; Polydesmus gallicus Latzel; Polydesmus denticulatus C.L. Koch; Brachydesmus superus Latzel; Macrosternodesmus palicola Brölemann; Ophiodesmus albonanus (Latzel); Stosatea italica (Latzel)

The collection contains a few specimens of non-British material as below:

Chaetechylere vesuriana ?; Clinopodes linearis Koch; Lithobius ?stramineus ; Lithobius ?toruanue ; Lithobius erythrocephalus Koch; Lithobius forficatus (Linn); Lithobius fulvicornis Meinert; Lithobius hispanicus Meinert; Lithobius lapidicola Meinert; Lithobius lucifugus Koch; Lithobius lusitanus valesiacus Verhoeff; Lithobius melanops Newport; Lithobius mutabilis Koch; Lithobius pelidnus Haase; Lithobius tylopus Latzel; Lithobius variegatus Leach; Scolopendra canidens oraniensis Lucas; Scutigera coleoptrata (Linné)

Edinburgh

Cambridge

NMW Jules

NMI Ireland Dublin

 

 

 

Software

Phylogenetic analysis

evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/software.html

A huge list of over 400 programs for analysing a great variety of problems in the general area of phylogentics. Not to be missed by anyone with analytical requirements.

Indicia

indicia.org.uk

Recorder

jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4592

Map tiles

DMAP

The Gilbert 21 Project

gilbert21.org.uk