Millipede Lab

Four color morphs of the millipede species Apheloria uwharrie. One has three yellow spots, two have red stripes, and one has two yellow spots.

Introducing one of the newest species of millipedes, the colorful Apheloria uwharrie, from the Uwharrie Mountains of North Carolina. More about this species and others in its genus is in our revision in Zootaxa — www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

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Today’s NYT mini crossword had a clue about eumillipes persephone! #myriapods #millipede

depigmented, blind insect relative with beadlike antennae and dark, pincerlike terminal cerci, crawling over pink granite

pretty japygid dipluran from our recent collecting expedition, this one from near Kaweah in the CA southern Sierran foothills

I love the beadlike antennae, and the splayed posture

one common name is "forcepstails", but these are unrelated to "earwigs"

UITOTO for taxonomy. Get your molecular diagnoses right without coding or breaking a sweat! Use state-specific, contrastive DMCs instead of fuzzy consensus barcodes!
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A macro photograph of a male Alaskan millipede, Litiulus alaskanus, rearing up on a stick

It’s #myriapodmonday!

Did you know there are #millipedes in #Alaska? The Alexander Archipelago and Kodiak Island are the northern and western limits of millipedes in North America.

Litiulus alaskanus
#entomology #bugs #nature #photography #macro

The logo of the 20th International Congress of Myriapodology, which will be held this summer in Serbia. The image is a logo with a stylized millipede in red (dorsally) and blue (ventrally).

Thanks to all the myriapod and velvetworm researchers for joining us on Tuesday for the Myriapod Meet Up 2025! There were 98 participants from 27 countries. It was awesome to see everyone and hear about your fascinating research! Looking forward to seeing folks in person this summer at ICM!

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Close-up of a jumping spider on a brown surface. The spider has prominent black eyes and a hairy body with a mix of light and dark patterns. Its front legs are slightly raised.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: March 26, 2025
Montane paradise jumping spider
Habronattus altanus
Araneae: Salticidae
By Marshal Hedin (@mhedin.bsky.social), California, USA
#arthropodPOTW

Shaky footage but here's a few seconds of a Bristly Millipede (Polyxenus lagurus) gliding across a lichen covered wall at Hethel church today.

a cream-colored millipede with beadlike body segments, with pink on the margins and the tip of the fairly long legs

an orange millipede with beadlike body segments, with a dark stripe on the back and yellow legs

Opisthodolichopus scandens is an arboreal millipede that’s easy to find in Singapore. I’m confused by their apparent sexual dimorphism—aren’t polydesmidan millipedes all blind? Who are these signals for?

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Un milpiés del Orden Chordeumatida

Qué poco sabemos de la naturaleza que nos rodea...

Os presento a Ceratosphys dissensionis, una nueva especie de milpiés que hemos descubierto en el abedular de Somosierra, Madrid (ES). Acaba de publicarse el trabajo aquí: sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...

Tantas especies y tan poco tiempo...

have fun in those caves. if you find some male Pseudotremia, we could do a photo shoot in the lab. there aren't enough good photos of them.

A picture of a flyer for Myriapod Meet-up 2025. There is an image of a millipede, and details about the date and time of the online meeting. The date of the meeting is on March 25, 2025 at 8:00AM - 5:00PM, New York, US (UTC -4). The Marek lab at Virginia Tech is hosting the 2025 Myriapod Meet-up. The Meet-up will be a chance to talk about Myriapoda, and catch up with colleagues. Those interested in presenting their myriapod-related studies, are invited to give a 5-minute lightning style talk (3 mins. talk + 2 mins. questions). These talks will provide a venue to share your exciting myriapod (or Onychophora) related research in a low-pressure relaxed setting. There will be open discussion sessions from 10-10:30AM, 12-12:30PM, and 3-3:30PM, to ask further questions and for general discussion. You are certainly welcome to not give a talk, and to observe and/or discuss. If you would like to participate in this Meet-up, please register at the blue link to the left. Be sure to provide your email address, so that we can send you a Zoom link for the meeting.

Myriapod Meet Up 2025 — 25 March, 8AM - 5PM (EDT). This online event will include short talks, and a chance to share and discuss research about myriapods (and other multipedes, e.g. Onychophora). Anyone may participate in this free event (no need to give a talk).

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To celebrate, here is one of our favourite species to occur on #collieryspoil - the Celtic Ghost Millipede (Psichrosoma cf breuili).

Known only from South Wales (globally), it was found new to science in 2015 from Newbridge, Caerphilly, by Christian Owen.

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#NewSpecies!
New millipede from #thailand just rolled in:

Sphaerobelum petramurum

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Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zse....
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #SphaerobelumPetramurum

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#science #biodiversity #nature #conservation #diplopoda #millipedes

A flat-backed millipede climbing over a log.

Here’s a nice portrait of one. These are among my favorite animals to find. So fun to watch.

A selection of images of a small, off-white millipede that is commonly referred to as the Beddau Beast since (in the UK) it is found only at Cwm Tips, near Beddau, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales.

The Beddau Beast (Cranogona dalensi) is a small off-white, winter-active millipede that is known (globally) only from the western Pyrenees and Cwm Tips, near Beddau.

These individuals were seen at Cwm Tips yesterday.

#millipedes #invertebrates #myriapoda #Wales #collieryspoil

Some of the coolest and perhaps most under-appreciated African carnivores are solifuges. The ferocity of these incredible arachnids, a.k.a. camel spiders or sun spiders, easily matches that of the wild dogs and, just like the canines, they can dismember their prey in a matter of seconds.

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A flat-backed millipede cruising along though the rainforest. Their leg motion is mesmerizing. #inverts
(Family Platyrhacidae)
Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador

orange colored Citronella ants beneath a rock, some carrying small mealybug insects in their mandibles, with a tiny springtail in their midst

I enjoyed the lone, tiny myrmecophilic springtail in this one

Citronella ants + mealybugs + springtail

did get a few tachyines, and some neat macro-bugs: a clown weevil (Eudiagogus pulcher) and a Eurymerodesmus millipede

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a pale, elegant long-legged spider, with whispy silk, under a stone

welcome to the world new spider genus Siskiyu. you've been lurking in the dark, magical woods of far northern California for millenia. Now the humans have finally gotten around to telling your story, at least in part

this research was funded by the NSF

OA here

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Ani image of a fossil centipede (left, top right), and a modern comparison (bottom right). The fossil is a dark brown colour, and is quite fragmented - the front is towards the top, and you can see on the left, the anterior end with some legs and mouthparts, and on the right, some mean looking mouthparts. The bottom right is a better preserved, modern, mean looking set of mouthparts. Full caption from the paper: (A,B) Devonobius delta Shear & Bonamo, 1988, a pleurostigmophoran chilopod from the Middle Devonian of New York. (A) Dorsal view of head and anterior part of trunk; (B) maxillipedes. (C) Craterostigmus tasmanianus maxillipedes (cleared in Hoyer’s) for comparison with those of Devonobius delta; note absence in C. tasmanianus of ventral apodemes.

For #FossilFriday meet something of a rarity - a fossil centipede. Like last week's fossil, this is a macerate - the remains of an animal dissolved out of a rock using strong acid. The fossil, called Devonobius, is from NY state, and is around 385 million years old. Isn't it cool? 🤩

⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

Fantastic stickers! I love the skateboarding Chicobolus spinigerus!