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Taxonomics – Next Generation Taxonomists, Ana Sofia Reboleira
Taxonomics – Next Generation Taxonomists, Ana Sofia Reboleira
Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira
“Taxonomics” is proposed as a short name for the discipline of discovering, recognising, describing and classifying biological entities.
Mud And Silk In The Dark: A New Type Of Millipede Moulting Chamber And First Observations On The Maturation Moult In The Order Callipodida, Ana Sofia Reboleira, Henrik Enghoff
Mud And Silk In The Dark: A New Type Of Millipede Moulting Chamber And First Observations On The Maturation Moult In The Order Callipodida, Ana Sofia Reboleira, Henrik Enghoff
Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira
The postembryonic development of millipedes includes a series of stadia separated by moults, a process known as anamorphosis. The moulting process and especially the moulting into maturity, i.e., with fully developed copulatory organs, remains unknown for most millipede species. We have kept specimens of Lusitanipus alternans (Verhoeff, 1893) in the laboratory for one year and studied its moulting process, including the first study of the maturation moult in the order Callipodida. Unlike the typical silk cocoon reported for other callipodidans, this species builds a new type of solid moulting chamber, using the available substrate reinforced by a silken web. We …
No Titlehidden Biodiversity Revealed By Collections-Based Research—Laboulbeniales In Millipedes: Genus Rickia
Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira
Nine new species of the genus Rickia parasitizing Diplopoda are described: R. appendicifera from Iran on Chiraziulus, R. candelabriformis from Australia and New Zealand on several Spirostreptida, R. galatheae from New Zealand on Eumastigonus, R. gigas from Tanzania on ‘Spirostreptus’ and Archispirostreptus, R. lophophora from Tanzania on some genera of Spirostreptidae, R. obelostrepti from Tanzania on Obelostreptus, R. odontopygiidarum from Tanzania on Odontopygidae, R. platessa from Singapore and Thailand on Pachybolidae, and R. rhynchophora from Australia on Trigoniulus. This nearly triples the previously known number of species of Rickia species on millipedes; …