Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Life Sciences Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Selected Works

Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira

Iran

Publication Year
File Type

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Life Sciences

No Titlehidden Biodiversity Revealed By Collections-Based Research—Laboulbeniales In Millipedes: Genus Rickia Dec 2015

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; …

Go to article

Highly Disjunct And Highly Infected Millipedes – A New Cave-Dwelling Species Of Chiraziulus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalidae) From Iran And Notes On Laboulbeniales Ectoparasites, Ana Reboleira, Mohamad Malek Hosseini, Saber Sadeghi, Henrik Enghoff Oct 2015

Highly Disjunct And Highly Infected Millipedes – A New Cave-Dwelling Species Of Chiraziulus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalidae) From Iran And Notes On Laboulbeniales Ectoparasites, Ana Reboleira, Mohamad Malek Hosseini, Saber Sadeghi, Henrik Enghoff

Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira

Chiraziulus is a highly disjunct, hitherto monotypic genus of cambalid millipedes, geographically isolated in Iran by more than 7000 km from its presumed closest relatives in East Asia and North America. Recent fieldwork in caves of Iran has provided several specimens of this genus, allowing the description of Chiraziulus troglopersicus sp. nov. The intraspecific variability of the type species, C. kaiseri Mauriès, 1983, is illustrated with scanning electron micrographs. Chiraziulus is characterized by exceedingly long microtrichose gonopod flagella which from their insertion points on the posterior face of the anterior gonopod coxites first point distad instead of basad or basad-posteriad …

Go to article