Glomerida

Wesener, Thomas, 2012, Nearctomeris, a new genus of Pill Millipedes from North America, with a comparison of genetic distances of American Pill Millipede Genera (Glomerida, Glomeridae), Zootaxa 3258, pp. 58-68 : 62

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.210225

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6167706

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B12887FD-FFAD-2B2A-FF73-FCD8FA70FB2C

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Plazi

scientific name

Glomerida
status

 

Key to the American pill millipede genera (order Glomerida View in CoL )

1. Body length usually> 5 mm; male leg pair 17 resembling unmodified leg; male telopods without trichostele, femoral process completely sclerotized. California, N Guatemala to Mexico............................ Glomeroides Chamberlin, 1922 View in CoL

- Body length usually ≤ 5 mm; male leg pair 17 with strongly reduced telopodite ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 B); male telopods with prefemoral and femoral trichostele ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 E), femoral process flexible, partly membranous. SE North America........................ 2

2. Head with conspicuous Y-shaped crest and antennal grooves; lateral margin of head sharp-edged and rectangular; collum with two transverse striae; thoracic shield with large hyposchism field; anterior margin of tergites with toothed ridge; tergites laterally without striae; telopods with tibial process......................................... Onomeris Cook, 1896 View in CoL [see Wesener 2010 for a redescription]

- Head without crest or grooves ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 C); lateral margin of head well-rounded; collum with single transverse stria ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 F); schism of thoracic shield small ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 E); anterior margin of tergites without toothed ridge; tergites laterally with single stria ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 A); telopods only with femoral process, lacking tibial process ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 D).................. Nearctomeris View in CoL new genus

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Glomerida

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