Chordeumatida Pocock, 1894

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 : 1135

Order Chordeumatida Pocock, 1894

Family undetermined (3)

New records. 1?, BuB0974; 1?, BuB1978; 1 M, BuB2978.

Identification. Chordeumatida can be identified based on the presence of 25–31 tergites with a dorsal suture, an anal segment carrying 4 spinnerets, and tergites with 3+3 characteristic macrosetae ( Enghoff et al. 2015). The order has many recent families, which in most cases can only be identified based on a careful examinations of the male copulatory legs.