Polyxenidae Lucas, 1840

Wesener, Thomas & Moritz, Leif, 2018, Checklist of the Myriapoda in Cretaceous Burmese amber and a correction of the Myriapoda identified by Zhang (2017), Check List 14 (6), pp. 1131-1140 : 1132

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/14.6.1131

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5478639

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03888796-FF99-2E29-3A3F-AF48C5C6F995

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scientific name

Polyxenidae Lucas, 1840
status

 

Family Polyxenidae Lucas, 1840 View in CoL (8)

New records. 1?, BuB634; 1?, BuB2612; 1?, BuB2961; 1?, BuB2966; 1?, Wu F3358/Bu/CJW; 1?, Wu F3384/Bu/ CJW; 1?, Wu F3389/Bu/CJW; 1?, Wu F3394/Bu/CJW.

Identification. These 8 specimens were thankfully determined to the family level by the taxonomic expert of the group, Megan Short, based on photographs (see Acknowledgements). The diagnostic characters include: presence of 10 tergites, 13 pairs of legs, as well as a special arrangement of hairs.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Polyxenida

Family

Polyxenidae

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