Tetramerocerata

Diagnostic description: 

Diagnosis follows Scheller (2008: 4[1]; 2011: 498[2]):

Pauropoda with a 4-segmented antennal stalk, not telescopic; antennal branches projecting from article IV; ventral antennal branch s with two flagella, at least one globulus and one seta; temporal organs irregularly oval, at least the central part flattened; margins not or only partly elevated. Trunk with 6 entire or partly divided tergites. No tracheae. One rudimentary pair of legs on the first trunk segment; adults with 10 pairs of walking legs at most; developmental stages with 3, 5, 6, (7), 8, 9 and 10 pairs of legs.

References

  1. U. Scheller, “A reclassification of the Pauropoda (Myriapoda)”, International Journal of Myriapodology, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-38, 2008.
  2. U. Scheller, “Pauropoda”, in Treatise on Zoology-Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, vol. 1, A. Minelli, Ed. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011, pp. 467-508.
Taxonomic name: 
Tetramerocerata (Taxonomy)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith