DearMillipede

All millipedes, all the time. An account dedicated to the best class of animals: Diplopoda. Run by @derekhennen. Questions? [email protected]

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Eating dead leaves and hanging around logs: Twitter finally has a dedicated millipede account! Stay tuned for photos, facts, and stories about the best animals: the millipedes. Have requests or questions? Ask away! #DearMillipede

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@WRocchietti It happens sometimes, I've seen my fair share drowned. Looks like a cherry millipede (Xystodesmidae), likely the genus Pachydesmus

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You'll wanna click through to check out these photos and the weirdly modified head! Great discovery by the authors!

[ZooKeys @ZooKeys_Journal]

Meet Inversotyphlus ammirandus, "by far the most bizarre hydrophilous cave-dwelling #millipede discovered to date": https://t.co/EyYDRlM8C3

#caves #millipedes #taxonomy @nes_akkari @Univerzitet_BG @NHM_Wien

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@Museocat @WinSpinCIC @apheloria These are the greenhouse millipede, an introduced species from Asia

[BMIG @britishmigroup]

BMIG Bulletin Volume 35 (2023) has just been published online. Articles include the pygmy woodlouse Hyloniscus riparius & flat-back millipede Polydesmus taranus new to UK; and ecological studies on the rare pill-millipede Trachysphaera lobata. https://t.co/kqLjkPUoz3

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A new pill millipede from the Great Smokies!

[Caterino Arthropod Biodiversity Lab @CaterinoLab]

Pleased to present Nearctomeris smoky, a new species of pill millipede from the Great Smoky Mountains. This paper was led by my fabulous postdoc Ernesto Recuero (proving, for better or worse, that it's not ALL beetles all the time in the Caterino Lab!)
https://t.co/rABl5NfKIa

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Secret pauropod thread

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Unlike the ivory-billed woodpecker, this animal exists! A new species and first of its family to be documented from South America, a fantastic find!

[Zootaxa updates @Zootaxa]

Descriptions of the #newspecies of the genus Nepalmatoiulus Mauriès, 1983 from China, with notes on the closely coexisting species (#Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)
https://t.co/KQZyhGWsN0
#Taxonomy

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In the pauropod world, the Eurypauropodidae are the Ferraris: the head-turning hot shots that everyone envies. And this paper has three of them, including two new species from China! https://t.co/waipMEQeSn Check them out! @ZooKeys_Journal

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Two new pillipede species from Laos! Both in the genus Hyperglomeris, this study incorporates genetic data. CO1 still isn't enough to sort out questions of relatedness among genera in the Glomeridae. https://t.co/bP00CqAaHn @ZooKeys_Journal

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If you've ever wanted to learn more about the post-embryonic development of stone centipedes, you're in luck! A very thorough paper on the development of Lithobius melanops by colleagues in Serbia https://t.co/Hkd6yuJW68

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A nice paper with useful records and synthesis of stone centipedes in Slovenian caves!

[Subterranean Biology @subtbiol]

A new study presents an overview of the lithobiomorph #centipede species found across 160 localities in Slovenian #caves. 319 occurrence records are published for the first time: https://t.co/oaNvadhB3X

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This is a tour de force of a publication! Easy to see that a huge amount of work went into this, very nice!

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This is a tour de force of a publication! Easy to see that a huge amount of work went into this, very nice!

[European Journal of Taxonomy @ejtaxonomy]

[#millipedes] A reassessment of the Neotropical genus Pseudonannolene Silvestri, 1895: cladistic analysis, biogeography & taxonomic review (Spirostreptida: Pseudonannolenidae)

✒️Luiz Felipe Moretti Iniesta et al.
🔗DOI: https://t.co/avJMf2TSs8
#newspecies

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@JohnHaubenreich I love Frozen Head State Park! This would be Narceus americanus/annularis complex, one of our largest millipedes in the eastern US. Very cool find!

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A very nice paper describing a species of cave millipede in Japan, complete with nice photos, SEM micrographs, and genetic sequences!

[Species Diversity @Species_Divers]

Redescription of the Subterranean Millipede Antrokoreana gujoensis (Diplopoda: Julida: Nemasomatidae) from Central Honshu, Japan
🔓https://t.co/TbSotfP7ds
#Millipede #Myriapoda #SpeciesDiversity

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@pepperjackb @Ologies Very cool! A Paeromopodidae, which includes some of the longest millipedes in the country!

[泥色つかい @doroirotsukai]

マクラギヤスデ
Niponia nodulosa

…だと思うんですけどね、少なくとも大きい方は先程ツイートした個体で確定。小さい方もマクラギヤスデだと思うのだけど、胴節数19なのであと１回の脱皮で成体になるはずなのにこの体格差…。個体差？それともこんなものなのか？同ステージの間に大きくなるのかしら

[Finley Hutchinson @FinleyHutchins2]

Lots of cool critters around deadwood on the Reading Uni campus with @BugBoyDawid today. Best were my first Neelid springtails - Neelus murinus and Megalothorax minimus, the latter only 0.3mm long! Also lots of pauropods and other funky Myriapods like Strigamia crassipes (pic 4)

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Even when you're a powerful predator like a centipede, you can't let you guard down. Some ants specifically prey on centipedes! In the eastern US, we have a few species of Stigmatomma which do this.

[AntRoom 島田拓 @AntRoom_taku]

かっこいいノコギリハリアリ。
ムカデを食べるアリは、他にもムカシアリ（1mm）やジュズフシアリ（3ｍｍ）がいますが、これらを見てからノコギリハリアリ（4.5mm）を見ると巨大に見えます。
自分よりはるかに大きなムカデを捕らえるのがすごいです。
https://t.co/pP0stlEiQk