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Nannaria

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Nannaria
Male N. wilsoni from Giles County, Virginia.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Polydesmida
Family: Xystodesmidae
Tribe: Nannariini
Genus: Nannaria
Chamberlin, 1918
Type species
Nannaria minor
Chamberlin, 1918
Synonyms
  • Mimuloria Chamberlin, 1928
  • Castanaria Causey, 1950

The genus Nannaria, commonly known as twisted-claw millipedes, is a genus of millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae first described by Ralph Chamberlin in 1918.[1] In 2022, entomologists Derek Hennen, Jackson Means and Paul Marek discovered and described 17 new species, which expanded the size of Nannaria to 78, making it the largest genus of Xystodesmidae.[2]

Species

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These 78 species belong to the genus Nannaria:[2]

References

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  1. ↑ Chamberlin, Ralph Vary (1918). "New polydesmoid diplopods from Tennessee and Mississippi". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 25 (6): 122–127. doi:10.1155/1918/24852.
  2. 1 2 Hennen, Derek A.; Means, Jackson C.; Marek, Paul E. (15 April 2022). "A revision of the wilsoni species group in the millipede genus Nannaria Chamberlin, 1918 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae)". ZooKeys (1096): 17–118. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1096.73485. PMC 9033750. PMID 35837667.

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