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Traits taxon detailsMacrosternodesmidae Brölemann, 1916
888740 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:888740)
accepted
Family
Macrosternodesmini Brölemann, 1916 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Brölemann, H. W. (1916). Essai de classification des Polydesmiens. <em>Annales de la Société entomologique de France.</em> 84: 523-608. Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8559505
page(s): 585; note: as Macrosternodesmini [details]
Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Macrosternodesmidae Brölemann, 1916. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888740 on 2026-01-17
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Macrosternodesmidae Brölemann, 1916. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888740 on 2026-01-17
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Brölemann, H. W. (1916). Essai de classification des Polydesmiens. <em>Annales de la Société entomologique de France.</em> 84: 523-608. Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8559505
page(s): 585; note: as Macrosternodesmini [details] original description (of Macrosternodesmini Brölemann, 1916) Brölemann, H. W. (1916). Essai de classification des Polydesmiens. <em>Annales de la Société entomologique de France.</em> 84: 523-608. Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8559505 [details] taxonomy source Chamberlin, R. V.; Hoffman, R. L. (1950). On some genera and families of North American diplopods. Natural History Miscellanea, 71: 1-7. Chicago note: Establishment of Nearctodesmidae as a separate family [details] additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève. page(s): 177; note: Macrosternodesmidae [details] additional source Shear, W. A. (1969). A synopsis of the cave millipeds of the United States, with an illustrated key to genera. Psyche, 76(2): 126-143 [details] additional source Loomis, H. F. (1960). Millipeds of the order Polydesmida from the western states and Baja California. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 33: 57-68 note: Description of Bachydesmus bituberculatus, genus Harpogonopus, Harpogonopus confluentus, genus Oodedesmus, Oodedesmus variabilis, genus Phreatodesmus, Phreatodesmus torreyanus, Phreatodesmus cooki, Ph... Description of Bachydesmus bituberculatus, genus Harpogonopus, Harpogonopus confluentus, genus Oodedesmus, Oodedesmus variabilis, genus Phreatodesmus, Phreatodesmus torreyanus, Phreatodesmus cooki, Phreatodesmus dentatus, moved Brachydesmus hastingsus into genus Phreatodesmus, information on Speorthus tuganbius, Antriadesmus fragilis, Chaetaspis albus, and Tidesmus
additional source 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. Amsterdam, available online at https://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf page(s): 336 [details] additional source Lewis, J. J. (2002). Chaetaspis aleyorum, a new species of milliped from Tumbling Creek Cave, Missouri, with a synopsis of the cavernicolous species of Chaetaspis (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Myriapodologica, 7(11): 101-111 [details] additional source Packard, A. S. Jr. (1877). On a new cave fauna in Utah. <em>Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.</em> 3(1): 157-179., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31645843 [details]  additional source Shelley, R. M. (1994). The milliped family Nearctodesmidae in northwestern North America, with accounts of Sakophallus and S. simplex Chamberlin (Polydesmida). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 72(3): 470-495 [details] additional source Whitney, C. L.; Shelley, R. M. (1995). Occurrence of the milliped Ergodesmus compactus Chamberlin in Canada (Polydesmida: Nearctodesmidae). Insecta Mundi, 9(3-4): 277-278 [details] additional source Elliott, W. R. (2004). Speodesmus cave millipeds: four new species from Central Texas (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae). Texas Memorial Museum, Speleological Monographs, 6: 163-174 [details] Available for editors  additional source Shelley, R. M.; Shear, W. A. (2006). Leonardesmus injucundus, n. gen., n. sp., an aromatic, small-bodied milliped from Washington State, U. S. A., and a revised account of the family Nearctodesmidae (Polydesmida). Zootaxa, 1176: 1-16 [details] additional source Shear, W. A.; Jones, T. H.; Miras, H. M. (2007). A possible phylogenetic signal in milliped chemical defenses: The polydesmidan milliped Leonardesmus injucundus Shelley & Shear secretes p-cresol and lacks a cyanogenic defense (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Nearctodesmidae). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 35(12): 838-842 [details] additional source Shear, W. A.; Shelley, R. M. (2007). The milliped genus Tidesmus Chamberlin, 1943 (Polydesmida: Macrosternodesmidae). Zootaxa, 1656: 51-68 [details] additional source Shear, W. A.; Shelley, R. M. (2008). Cave millipeds of the United States. VI. Sequoiadesmus krejcae, n. gen., n. sp., from Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California, USA (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidea, Macrosternodesmidae). Zootaxa, 1693: 41-48 [details] additional source Kime, R. D.; Enghoff, H. (2011). Atlas of European Millipedes (Class Diplopoda) Volume 1 Orders Polyxenida, Glomerida, Platydesmida, Siphonocryptida, Polyzoniida, Callipodida, Polydesmida. <em>Fauna Europaea Evertebrata.</em> 3: 1-282; June 2011. page(s): 50 [details] additional source Shear, William Albert; Steinmann, David B. (2019). Cave Millipedes of the United States. XV Coloradesmus gen.nov. (Diplopoda, Poydesmida, Macrosternodesmidae), and four new species from caves in Colorado, USA. Subterranean Biology, 32: 15-32, available online at https://subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/38161/download/pdf/326954 [details] additional source Shear, William Albert; Reddell, James M. (2017). Cave millipedes of the United States. XIV. Revalidation of the genus Speorthus Chamberlin, 1952 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Macrosternodesmidae), with a description of a new species from Texas and remarks on the families Polydesmidae and Macrosternodesmidae in North America. Insecta Mundi, 0529: 1-13 [details] additional source Lewis, J.; Slay, M. (2013). Chaetapis attenuatus, A New Species of Cavernicolous Milliped from Arkansas (Diplopoda: Poldesmida: Macrosternodesmidae). <em>Journal of Cave and Karst Studies.</em> 60-63., available online at https://doi.org/10.4311/2011lsc0253 [details] Available for editors additional source Shear, W. A.; Shelley, R. M. (2019). Solved after 140 years: the identity of the millipede Polydesmus cavicola Packard, 1877, and proposal of Packardesmus n. gen. (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Macrosternodesmidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4559(2)., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4559.2.11 [details] Available for editors |
