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Chemical defense in the cave-dwelling millipede Brachydesmus troglobius Daday, 1889 (Diplopoda, Polydesmidae)

International Journal of Speleology, 2012
The troglomorphic millipede Brachydesmus troglobius Daday, 1889 (Polydesmida: Polydesmidae) secretes allomones from glands on both lateral surfaces of its body segments.
Makarov Slobodan E., Vujisić Ljubodrag V., Ćurčić Božidar P. M., Ilić Bojan S., Tešević Vele V., Vajs Vlatka E., Vučković Ivan M., Mitić Bojan M., Lučić Luka R., Đorđević Iris Ž.   +9 more
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On some surface structures of potential taxonomic importance in families of the suborders Polydesmidea and Dalodesmidea (Polydesmida, Diplopoda)

ZooKeys, 2011
Surface structures have rarely been the subject of a comprehensive study in Polydesmida despite their tremendous variety within this order. A number of these peripheral structures are here studied in most families of the suborders Polydesmidea and ...
Nesrine Akkari, Henrik Enghoff
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Primer reporte de 3,4-dimetoxifenol, en secreciones defensivas de milípedos endémicos cubanos (Spirobolida, Rhinocricidae, Rhinocricus). Caso de estudio Rhinocricus duvernoyi Karch 1881, población de La Palma

Revista CENIC Ciencias Químicas, 2009
Los milípedos (Artropoda, Dipolopoda), son invertebrados terrestres muy antiguos que comprenden 14 000 especies distribuidas en todas las zonas geográficas del planeta. Estos organismos frente a un ataque de depredadores responden eyectando una secreción
Juan Antonio Mesa Díaz, Juan Enrique Tacoronte Morales, Rodny Montes de Oca Porto, Jorge Tobellas Sabater, Raine Garrido Arteaga   +4 more
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Study on the Diversity of Soil Macrofauna in Karst Mountainous Area in Guizhou Province

Shuitu baochi yanjiu, 2013
In order to study diversity of soil macrofauna of typical karst mountainous area,apreliminary study was conducted in four typical karst mountainous areas.A total of 599soil macrofauna belongs to 3phylums,8classes and 21order.Among them,the dominant ...
FAN Yun-long, XIONG Kang-ning, CHEN Hu
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The family Xystodesmidae in the Korean Peninsula (Diplopoda: Polydesmida)

European Journal of Taxonomy
The polydesmidan family Xystodesmidae is reviewed with respect to the millipede fauna of the Korean Peninsula. It encompasses eight species in four genera: Xystodesmus Cook, 1895; Riukiaria Attems, 1898; Levizonus Attems, 1898; and Parafontaria Verhoeff,
Gyeongmin Kim, Zoltán Korsós, Ui Wook Hwang   +2 more
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Diversity of invertebrates within the burrows of the streaked shearwater (Calonectris leucomelas) on Toshima Island, Izu Islands, Japan

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity
Bird nests form a unique environment that supports a diverse community of invertebrates, which is often overlooked in biodiversity studies. This study analyzed the invertebrate communities in the nests of Calonectris leucomelas on Toshima Island in the ...
Ryota Asano, Taito Kamata, Wataru Suzuki, Yuki Yamaguchi, Takashi Nomura   +4 more
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A comparison and conservation assessment of the high-altitude grassland and forest-millipede (Diplopoda) fauna of the South African Drakensberg

Soil Organisms, 2009
The Drakensberg mountains, classified as part of the Afromontane region, form the division between the more low lying coastal plain and the high-lying interior of South Africa, and comprise a relatively homogenous and continuous grassland matrix, with ...
Michelle Hamer, Rob Slotow
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First record of the genus Touranella Attems, 1937 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) from Laos, with a description of a new species. [PDF]

Zookeys, 2023
Nguyen AD, Sierwald P, Ware S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Appearance of a transparent protrusion containing two pairs of legs on the apodous ring preceding the anamorphic molt in a millipede, Niponia nodulosa. [PDF]

Front Zool, 2023
Chiyoda S, Oguchi K, Miura T.
europepmc   +1 more source

New records of five polydesmidan millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with notes on the postembryonic development of <i>Prosopodesmus</i> spp. (Haplodesmidae). [PDF]

Biodivers Data J
Chiyoda S, Hisasue Y, Yoshino H, Kuwahara R, Miura T.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source