Glomeridesmida

Shelley, Rowland M. & Golovatch, Sergei I., 2011, Atlas of Myriapod Biogeography. I. Indigenous Ordinal and Supra-Ordinal Distributions in the Diplopoda: Perspectives on Taxon Origins and Ages, and a Hypothesis on the Origin and Early Evolution of the Class, Insecta Mundi 2011 (158), pp. 1-134 : 16

Order Glomeridesmida ( Fig. 7 )

Glomeridesmida is a tropical taxon inhabiting seven widely separated areas, two straddling the Equator. A reasonably complete summary ( Jeekel 2003a) is available along with a map in Mauriès (1988a).

In the New World, Glomeridesmida straddle the Equator but most records occur to the north in Caribbean Islands, Mexico /Central America, and northern South America. They are known from both Greater (Hispaniola [ Haiti], Jamaica, Puerto Rico) and Lesser ( Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent) Antilles (Hoffman 1960, 1999; Jeekel 2003a), sufficient to encircle all Caribbean Islands except the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. The northernmost continental records are from Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico ( Shear 1973a, Hoffman 1999, Jeekel 2003a); we provide new ones (Appendix) from Peru and Brazil that extend the range continuously southward, but the southernmost is from

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Figure 7-9. Distributions. 7) Distributions of the Superorder Limacomorpha and the order Glomeridesmida, at present excluding the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. The arrow denotes the new record from Fiji (Appendix). 8) Distribution of the Superorder Oniscomorpha. Star, site of the non-spinose Carboniferous fossil from Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA. 9) Distribution of the Order Glomerida, parameters as in Fig. 1, 6.