Pyrgodesmidae is a family of flat-backed millipedes in the order Polydesmida. The family contains over 200 species distributed in tropics around the world. [1] [2] Some species are found only in ant colonies, and are considered obligate myrmecophiles. [3]

A new fossil species of pyrgodesmid millipede (Polydesmida: Pyrgodesmidae) placed in the genus Myrmecodesmus Silvestri, 1910 is described. The type materials are two amber inclusions, male and female specimens that come from Miocene strata in Chiapas, Mexico.

2019年4月1日 · The genus Cryptocorypha Attems, 1907, is one of the few relatively speciose genera of the mainly tropical millipede family Pyrgodesmidae which is among the largest in the entire class Diplopoda. The family Pyrgodesmidae currently comprises more than 170 genera and nearly 400 species (Minelli 2015, Golovatch et al. 2017).

Pyrgodesmidae is a family of flat-backed millipedes in the order Polydesmida. The family contains over 200 species distributed in tropics around the world. Some species are found only in ant colonies, and are considered obligate myrmecophiles.

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2017年10月25日 · We report here one species, Ampelodesmus cf. granulosus myrmecophilus millipede (Pyrgodesmidae) collected from colonies of Brachyponera chinensis (Formicidae: Hymenopera). The family...

2012年8月28日 · In this paper I sample the large diversity of native Australian pyrgodesmids by describing six new species from widely separated Queensland localities. I have redeposited as ‘ Pyrgodesmidae ’ another ca 400 specimens, representing an unknown number of additional species, in their respective Australian repositories (see Appendix).

2022年10月24日 · Three new species of the family Pyrgodesmidae Silvestri, 1896 from the Udzungwa Mountains are described: Cryptocorypha geminiramus sp. nov., Cryptocorypha cactifer sp. nov., and Cryptocorypha...

Three new genera and six new species of Pyrgodesmidae are described from Queensland: Asticopyrgodesmusgen. n., containing Asticopyrgodesmus lamingtonensissp. n. and Asticopyrgodesmus maialasp. n. (type species); Nephopyrgodesmusgen. n., with Nephopyrgodesmus eungellasp. n. (type and only species); a …

The genus Cryptocorypha Attems, 1907, is one of the few relatively speciose genera of the mainly tropical millipede family Pyrgodesmidae which is among the largest in the entire class Diplopoda. The family Pyrgodesmidae currently comprises more than 170 genera and nearly 400 species (Minelli 2015, Golovatch et al. 2017).