Cambalidea

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 : 34-36

Suborder Cambalidea ( Fig. 30 -31)

Silvestri, 1897, and Glyphiulus granulatus Gervais, 1847 (both Cambalopsidae ); accordingly, we exclude records from remote oceanic islands because of the likelihood that they are allochthonous. Taiwanese samples were assigned to G. granulatus by Korsós (2004), hence the distribution excludes this country and associated islets. The isolated record of Dolichoglyphius asper Verhoeff, 1898 , from Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, is consistent with an introduction and hence is shown as a separate dot. There is also an isolated area in the Zagros Mtns., Iran ( Mauriès 1983, Golovatch 1983 c, Jeekel 2004a, Enghoff and Moravvej 2005), and we add a detached site on the Iraqi border (Appendix).

Indigenous records also exist from southeastern coastal Australia and the North Island of New Zealand, and we treat New Caledonia records of Hypocambala caledonica ( Carl, 1926) as native.

Figures

Figure 30. Distribution of the Suborder Cambalidea. Asterisk, location of Protosilvestria sculpta, the Oligocene fossil from Quercy, France (Mauriès 1992).