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Atlas of the Millipedes (Diplopoda) of Britain and Ireland, Pensoft Series Faunistica 59, ISSN 1312-0174.
Contents: Foreword - by R.D. Kime - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Millipede recording in Britain and Ireland - by P.T. Harding - Check list - Distribution maps and species accounts - Alien Species - Data analysis - Conservation - Future recording - Appendices - 1.
Millipedes are terrestrial uniramian antennate and mandibulate arthropods whose bodies are made up of a chain of numerous segments. The appendages of the first body segment just behing the head (collum) are absent.
In this article, five main morphotypes (polyxenoid, glomeroid, juloid, polydesmoid, and platydesmoid) are denoted and five ecomorphotypes, i.e. life-forms (stratobionts, troglobionts, geobionts, subcorticolous xylobionts, and epiphytobionts) are outlined.
A review is given of the diplopod fauna of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, with special reference to that of the periodically inundated areas of the Pantanal.
In an extensive study on endangered biotopes in the State of Saxony-Anhalt/Eastern Germany, the authors studied the millipede fauna of 50 dry habitats, belonging to 5 types of biotopes from 1995 to 1998 using pitfall traps.
Characteristics Millipedes are a diverse group of animals and are not well studied in Australia and of the 15 orders of millipedes in the world only 9 have been recorded in Australia.