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Volume 45, Number 3,
March 1999:
Centipedes and Millipedes with Emphasis on North America Fauna

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
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IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- how are they different?
- classification of centipedes
- classification of millipedes, section 1
- classification of millipedes, section 2
- classification of millipedes, section 3
- the most frequently asked question
- mouthparts
- breathing
- eggs and young
- behavior
- defense
- effects on humans
- further reading
- references
- back cover

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Centipedes and Millipedes with Emphasis on North America Fauna
by Rowland M. Shelley


REFERENCES
Bailey, J.W. 1928. The Chilopoda of New York State with Notes on the Diplopoda. New York State Museum Bulletin No. 276: 5-50.

Chamberlin, R.V. 1918. The Chilopoda and Diplopoda of the West Indies. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 62: 151-262.

Chamberlin, RV and R.L. Hoffman. 1958. Checklist of the millipedes of North America. U.S. National Museum Bulletin No. 212: 1-236.

Filka, M.E. and R.M. Shelley. 1980. The milliped fauna of the Kings Mountain region of North Carolina (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). Brimleyana 4:1-45.

Hoffman, R.L. 1980 ("1979"). Classification of the Diplopoda. Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland, 237 pages.

Hoffman, R.L. 1990. Diplopoda. Pages 835-860 In: D.L. Dindal, ed. Soil Biology Guide. Wiley Interscience Publications, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1349 pages + ixviii.

Hoffman, R.L. and J.J. Lewis. 1997. Pseudotremia conservata, a new cleidogonid milliped (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida), with a synopsis of the cavernicolous millipeds of the Neotropical region (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). Amazoniana 14:1-35.

Hopkin, S.P. and H.J. Read. 1992. The Biology of Millipedes. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Kevan, D.K. McE., and G.G.E. Scudder. 1989. Illustrated Keys to the Families of Terrestrial Arthropods of Canada 1. Myriapods (Millipedes, Centipedes, etc.). Biological Survey of Canada Taxonomic Series No. 1, Ottawa, 88 pages + I-VI.

Lewis, J.G.E. 1981. The Biology of Centipedes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Loomis, H.F. 1968. A checklist of the millipeds of Mexico and Central America. U.S. National Museum Bulletin No. 266: 1-137.

Mundel, P. 1990. Pages 819-833 In: D.L. Dindal, ed., Soil Biology Guide. Wiley-Interscience Publication, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1349 pages + i-xviii.

Shear, W.A. 1969. A synopsis of teh cave millipeds of the United States, with an illustrated key to genera. Psyche 76: 126-143.

Shelley, R.M. 1978. Millipeds of teh eastern Piedmont region of North Carolina, U.S.A. (Diplopoda). Journal of Natural History 12: 37-79.

Shelley, R.M. 1988. The millipeds of eastern Canada (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 66: 1638-1663.

Shelley, R.M. 1990a. A new milliped of teh genus Metaxycheir from the Pacific Coast of Canada (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae), with remarks on the tribe Chonaphini and the west Canadian and Alaskan diplopod fauna. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68: 2310-2322.

Shelley, R.M. 1990b. Book Review. Kevan, D.K. McE., and G.G.E. Scudder, 1989. Illustrated Keys to the Families of Terrestrial Arthropods of Canada 1. Myriapods (Millipeds, Centipedes, etc.). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 66: 177-180.

Shelley, R.M. 1996. Book Review. Stephen P. Hopkin and Helen J. Read. 1992. The Biology of Millipedes. Proceedings of teh Entomologoical Society of Washington 98: 169-172.

Snider, R.M. 1991. Updated species lists and distribution records for the Diplopoda and Chilopoda of Michigan. Michigan Academician 24: 177-194.

Summers, G. 1979. An illustrated key to the chilopods of the north-central region of the United States. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 52: 690-700.

Summers, G., J.A. Beatty and N. Magnuson. 1980. A checklist of Illinois centipedes (Chilopoda). Great Lakes Entomologist 13: 241-257.

Summers, G., J.A. Beatty and N.Magnuson. 1980. A checklist of Illinois centipedes (Chilopoda); Supplement. Great Lakes Entomologist 14: 59-62.

Williams, S.R. and R.A. Hefner. 1928. The millipedes and centipedes of Ohio. The Ohio State University Bulletin 33 (Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin No. 18): 92-146.




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