@article {1771, title = {A previously unknown feeding mode in millipedes and the convergence of fluid feeding across arthropods}, journal = {Science Advances}, volume = {8}, year = {2022}, month = {16/02/2022}, pages = {1-9}, abstract = {

We report fluid feeding with a sucking pump in the arthropod class Diplopoda, using a combination of synchrotron tomography, histology, electron microscopy, and three-dimensional reconstructions. Within the head of nine species of the enigmatic Colobognatha, we found a pumping chamber, which acts as positive displacement pump and is notably similar to that of insects, showing even fine structural convergences. The sucking pump of these millipedes works together with protractible mouthparts and externally secreted saliva for the acquisition of liquid food. Fluid feeding is one of the great evolutionary innovations of terrestrial arthropods, and our study suggests that it evolved with similar biomechanical solutions convergent across all major arthropod taxa. While fluid-feeding insects are megadiverse today, it remains unclear why other lineages, such as Colobognatha, are comparably species poor.

}, issn = {2375-2548}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm0577}, url = {https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm0577}, author = {Moritz, Leif and Borisova, Elena and Hammel, J{\"o}rg U. and Blanke, Alexander and Wesener, Thomas} } @article {1405, title = {Morphological revision of Siphonophora hui (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Siphonophoridae) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber}, journal = {Palaeoentomology}, volume = {4}, year = {2021}, month = {29/06/2021}, pages = {279-288}, abstract = {

Siphonophora hui Jiang et al., 2019, known from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, is the first formally described fossil species of the extant myriapod family Siphonophoridae. Here we re-study this species using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) on the basis of three new specimens from the same deposit. A comparison between the fossil and extant species of Siphonophora is given and several new morphological details are discussed.

}, keywords = {Arthropods, Burmite, Cretaceous, Myanmar, Palaeodiversity}, issn = {2624-2834, 2624-2826}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.3.15}, url = {https://mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.4.3.15}, author = {Su, Yi-Tong and Cai, Chen-Yang and Huang, Di-Ying} } @article {1390, title = {Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2019}, journal = {Palaeoentomology}, volume = {3}, year = {2020}, month = {26/02/2020}, pages = {103{\textendash}118}, abstract = {

This is a supplement to Ross (2019) covering all taxa described or recorded in Burmese amber during 2019, plus a few earlier records that were missed previously. Up to the end of 2019, 1,478 species were recorded from Burmese (Kachin) amber of which 276 were named or recorded in 2019.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, Burmese amber, Cretaceous, fungi, insects, invertebrates, Myanmar, plants, protists, vertebrates}, issn = {2624-2826}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.1.14}, url = {https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.3.1.14}, author = {Ross, Andrew J.} } @article {902, title = {{\"U}bersicht der im K{\"o}niglich zoologischen Museum befindlichen Myriopoden aus der Familie der Polydesmi, sowie Beschreibungen einer neuen Gattung, Trachyjulus, der Juli und neuer Arten der Gattung Siphonophora}, journal = {Monatsberichte der K{\"o}niglich Preu{\ss}ischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin}, volume = {9}, year = {1864}, pages = {529-551}, abstract = {

Recommended citation: Peters, W. C. H. (1864): \Übersicht der im K\öniglich zoologischen Museum befindlichen Myriopoden aus der Familie der Polydesmi, sowie Beschreibungen einer neuen Gattung, Trachyjulus, der Juli und neuer Arten der Gattung Siphonophora. Monatsberichte der K\öniglich Preu\ßischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 9 (7): 529-551. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35180742

}, url = {https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35180742}, author = {Peters, Wilhelm Carl Hartwig} } @article {438, title = {Checklist of the Myriapoda in Cretaceous Burmese amber and a correction of the Myriapoda identified by Zhang (2017)}, journal = {Check List}, volume = {14}, year = {2018}, month = {12/2020}, pages = {1131-1140}, abstract = {

An inventory of the Myriapoda (Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Symphyla) from Cretaceous Burmese amber, Myanmar, is presented, including the oldest and/or first fossil record for numerous orders. For millipedes (Diplopoda) 527 records, including 460 new specimens determined by us, belonging to 13 of 16 recent orders are listed: Polyxenida, Glomeridesmida, Glomerida, Siphonophorida, Polyzoniida, Platydesmida, Siphoniulida, Chordeumatida, Polydesmida, Stemmiulida, Callipodida, Spirostreptida and Spirobolida. For centipedes, 33 records for 4 of the 5 recent orders are listed: Scutigeromorpha, Lithobiomorpha, Scolopendromorpha and Geophilomorpha. For Symphyla, three records for both families, Scutigerellidae and Scolopendrellidae, are listed. The majority of Diplopoda records (30.5\%) are Polydesmida. The record of the Polyzoniida includes first instar octopod juveniles. The checklist includes the first fossil representatives known of the Platydesmida, as well as the oldest known fossils of the Polyxenida, Glomeridesmida, Glomerida, Siphonophorida, Polyzoniida, Siphoniulida, Spirostreptida, as well as both Symphyla families. Misidentifications by Zhang (2017) are corrected; while most Chilopoda in that list are correct, almost all Diplopoda are misidentified.

}, keywords = {Chilopoda, Cretaceous, Diplopoda, fossil, Myanmar, Symphyla}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.15560/14.6.1131}, url = {https://checklist.pensoft.net/article/30320/}, author = {Wesener, Thomas and Moritz, Leif} } @article {365, title = {Millipeds from Dominican Amber, with the Description of Two New Species (Diplopoda: Siphonophoridae) of Siphonophora}, journal = {Annals of the Entomological Society of America}, volume = {85}, year = {1992}, month = {01/07/1992}, pages = {363 - 369}, abstract = {

Representatives of 11 genera (Lophoproctus?, Glomeridesmus, Epinannolene, Siphonophora, Siphonotus, Docodesmus, lomus, Lophodesmus?, Psochodesmus, Dasyodontus, and Inodesmus?) are reported from Dominican amber, most of them constituting the first or oldest fossils of their corresponding higher taxa. Extant species of lomus and Inodesmus have not been reported from Hispaniola; a chelodesmid seems more closely related to South American genera than to present-day Caribbean diplopods. Siphonophora hoffmani spec. nov. and S. velezi spec. nov. are described from adults embedded in Dominican amber.

}, keywords = {Diplopoda, Hispaniola, Siphonophora spp., systematics}, issn = {0013-8746}, doi = {10.1093/aesa/85.4.363}, url = {https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/aesa/85.4.363}, author = {Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. and Poinar, George O.} } @article {348, title = {Note sur un ordre nouveau de la classe des Myriapodes et sur l{\textquoteright}etablissement des sections de cette classe d{\textquoteright}animaux en g{\'e}n{\'e}ral}, journal = {Bulletin scientifique publi{\'e} par l{\textquoteright}Acad{\'e}mie Imp{\'e}riale des Sciences de Saint-P{\'e}tersbourg}, volume = {1}, year = {1837}, pages = {178-179}, url = {https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11945930}, author = {Johann Friedrich Brandt} } @article {158, title = {The milliped order Siphonophorida in the United States and northern Mexico}, journal = {Myriapodologica}, volume = {4}, number = {4}, year = {1996}, pages = {21{\textendash}33}, abstract = {

New localities are reported to detail the distributions of the order Siphonophorida and the family Siphonophoridae in the southwestern and southcentral United States, and northern Mexico. The northernmost sites are in Los Angeles County, California; Yavapai County, Arizona; and Coryell County, Texas. The Siphonorhinidae is represented by only one genus and species, Illacme plenipes Cook \& loomis, known only from northern San Benito County, California, the northernmost ordinal record. Congeneric starus is confirmed for Siphonacme lyttoni Cook \& loomis, in Arizona, and S. pseustes (Chamberlin), in Sonora, Mexico; Californizonium Verhoeff is synonymized under Siphonacme Cook \& loomis. Diagnostic illustrations are presented for I. plenipes, S. lyttoni and pseustes, and Siphonophora limitare Loomis and texascolens Chamberlin \& Mulaik.

}, issn = {0163-5395}, author = {Shelley, Rowland M.} } @article {111, title = {One hundred million years of stasis: Siphonophora hui sp. nov., the first Mesozoic sucking millipede (Diplopoda: Siphonophorida) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber}, journal = {Cretaceous Research}, volume = {97}, year = {2019}, month = {17/01/2019}, pages = {34 - 39}, type = {Short communication}, abstract = {

Fossil records of the ancient and less studied millipede order Siphonophorida are rare and only known from Oligocene-Miocene Dominican amber to date. Here, we describe a Mesozoic species of this order, Siphonophora hui sp. nov., based on two well-preserved specimens from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The new species can be placed in the family Siphonophoridae by having mouthparts strongly modified into a long beak, straight antennae, the separation of tergites, pleurites and sternites, leg-like gonopods derived from 9th and 10th leg pairs, and absence of ommatidia. This discovery pushes back the fossil record of Siphonophorida by more than 60 Ma. It also demonstrates that the details of the siphonophorid body plan have remained virtually unchanged for nearly 100 million years. An enigmatic structure on the antennae of the paratype may represent either the ancestral form of the circular sensory pits, or more unlikely, the earliest occurrence of a fungus parasitic or commensal on an arthropod.

}, keywords = {Burmese amber, fossil, Mesozoic, millipede, Palaeodiversity, Siphonophorida}, issn = {0195-6671}, doi = {10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.011}, url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0195667118304087}, author = {Jiang, Xuan-Kong and Shear, William A. and Hennen, Derek A. and Chen, Huiming and Xie, Zhicai} } @article {102, title = {Millipeds of the order Colobognatha, with descriptions of six new genera and type species, from Arizona and California}, journal = {Proceedings of the United States National Museum}, volume = {72}, year = {1928}, month = {1928}, pages = {1 - 26}, url = {https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100797$\#$page/559}, author = {Orator Fuller Cook and Loomis, Harold F.} }