Many-Legged Animals A Collection of Papers on Myriapoda and Onychophora : Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Myriapodology, 1996

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Language: English, with one French contribution with an English summary

The present volume contains papers presented at the Tenth International Congress of Myriapodology which was held in Copenhagen 29 July - 2 August, 1996. The congress in Copenhagen was attended by 66 myriapodologists (not counting associates) representing 28 countries in all major zoogeographical regions. The scope of the presentations was correspondingly wide. Those congress papers and posters which are published here have all been through a standard refereeing procedure which in some cases has resulted in significant changes from the original congress contribution. Taken together, the papers advertise that myriapodology, although an avocation of the selected few, is very much a living branch of zoology.

Contents

Myriapods generally
- Enghoff, H.: Introduction: Myriapods and myriapodology   5
- Dohle, W.: Are the insects more closely related to the crustaceans than to the myriapods?   7
- Rosenberg, J., Krüger, E. & Peters, W.: Intense receptor-mediated endocytosis in nephrocytes of Myriapoda   17

Centipedes, Chilopoda
- Shultz, J. W. & Regier, J. C.: Progress toward a molecular phylogeny of the centipede orders (Chilopoda)   25
- Schileyko, A. A. & Pavlinov, I. Ja.: A cladistic analysis of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda)   33
- Prunescu, C.-C.: The anatomy and evolution of the genital system in Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda)   41
- Hilken, G.: Tracheal systems in Chilopoda: a comparison under phylogenetic aspects   49
- Berto, D., Fusco, G. & Minelli, A.: Segmental units and shape control in Chilopoda   61
- Greven, H., Rosenberg, J. & Latka, I.: Cytochemical notes on the specialized cuticle of the coxal organs in Lithobius forficatus: Demonstration of lectins and chitin (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae)   71
- Pereira, L.A., Foddai, D. & Minelli, A.: Zoogeographical aspects of Neotropical Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda)   77
- Stoev, P.: A check-list of the centipedes of the Balkan peninsula with some taxonomic notes and a complete bibliography (Chilopoda)   87
- Fründ, H.-C., Balkenhol, B. & Ruszkowski, B.: Chilopoda in forest habitat-islands in north-west Westphalia, Germany   107
- Morais, J. W. de, Adis, J., Berti-Filho, E., Pereira, L.A., Minelli, A. & Barbieri, F.: On abundance, phenology and natural history of Geophilomorpha from a mixedwater inundation forest in Central Amazonia (Chilopoda)   115
- Zapparoli, M.: Centipedes of a wasteland urban area in Rome, Italy (Chilopoda)   121
- Zerm, M.: Distribution and phenology of Lamyctes fulvicornis and other lithobiomorph centipedes in the floodplain of the Lower Oder Valley, Germany (Chilopoda: Henicopidae, Lithobiidae)   125

Diplopoda
- Hoess, R., Scholl, A. & Lörtscher, M.: The Glomeris-taxa hexasticha and intermedia: species or subspecies? — allozyme data (Diplopoda, Glomerida: Glomeridae)   133
- Mauriès, J.-P.: Is the family Atopogestidae based on a case of teratology or a periodomorphic stage? (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygoidea)   139
- Sørensen, L.: A new species of the previously monotypic genus Allocotoproctus from the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida: Oxydesmidae)   149
- Bano, K. & Murthy, J. B.: Gonopods of some South Indian paradoxosomatid millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)   155
- Ćurčić, B. P. M. & Makarov, S. E.: Postembryonic development of Bulgarosoma lazarevensis — a cave-dwelling millipede from Yugoslavia (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida: Anthroleucosomatidae)   163
- Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M.: Fine structure and possible functions of antennal sensilla in Polyxenus lagurus (Diplopoda, Penicillata: Polyxenidae)   167
- Kania, G. & Rzeski, W.: In vitro phagocytic activity of hemocytes of Ommatoiulus sabulosus: preliminary observations (Diplopoda, Julida: Julidae)   179
- Xylander, W. E. R. & Bogusch, O.: Granular hemocytes as the main location of prophenoloxidase in the millipede Rhapidostreptus virgator (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida: Spirostreptidae)   183
- Ćurčić, B. P. M. & Makarov, S.E.: Diversification and biogeographic features of millipedes in Serbia, Yugoslavia (Diplopoda)   191
- Golovatch, S. I.: On the main traits of millipede distribution and faunogenesis in Eurasia (Diplopoda)   199
- Hamer, M. L.: A preliminary assessment of the southern African millipede fauna: diversity and conservation (Diplopoda)   209
- Korsós, Z.: The millipede fauna of the Dráva region, southern Hungary (Diplopoda)   219
- Tajovský, K.: Distribution of millipedes along an altitudinal gradient in three mountain regions in the Czech and Slovak Republics (Diplopoda)   225
- Wytwer, J.: Millipede communities of inundated ash-alder forests in Puszcza Białowieska, Poland (Diplopoda)   235
- Bailey, P. T.: Decline of an invading millipede, Ommatoiulus moreleti in South Australia: the need for a better understanding of the mechanism (Diplopoda, Julida: Julidae)   241
- Bourdanné, D. K.: Influence de l'anthropisation sur le peuplement en Diplopodes de la region d'Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (Diplopoda)   245
- David, J.-F. & Vannier, G.: Cold-hardiness of European millipedes (Diplopoda)   251
- Ishii, K.: Comparative biological study of the penicillate diplopods in Japan (Diplopoda, Penicillata)   257
- Kime, R.D.: Year-round pitfall trapping of millipedes in mainly open grassland in Belgium (Diplopoda)   263
- Mahsberg, D.: Pelmatojulus tigrinus, a key detritivore of a tropical gallery forest, (Diplopoda, Spirobolida: Pachybolidae)   269
- Krell, F.-T., Schmitt, T. & Linsenmair, K. E.: Diplopod defensive secretions as attractants for necrophagous scarab beetles (Diplopoda; Insecta, Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)   281
- Mwabvu, T.: Millipedes in small-scale farming systems in Zimbabwe: abundance and diversity (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)   287
- Serra, A., Miguel, C., Mateos, E. & Vicente, C.: Study of a soil Julidae community in Mediterranean forest (Diplopoda, Julida)   291
- Adis, J., Caoduro, G., Messner, B. & Enghoff, H.: On the semiaquatic behaviour of a new troglobitic millipede from northern Italy (Diplopoda, Polydesmida: Polydesmidae)   301

The smaller groups: Symphyla and Onychophora
Adis, J., Scheller, U., Morais, J. W. de, Rochus, C. & Rodrigues, J. M. G.: Symphyla from Amazonian non-flooded upland forests and their adaptations to inundation forests   307
- Brockmann, C., Mesibov, R. & Ruhberg, H.: Observations on Ooperipatellus decoratus, an oviparous onychophoran from Tasmania (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae)   319

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