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Genus of millipedes

Nannaria
Male N. wilsoni from Giles County, Virginia.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Polydesmida
Family: Xystodesmidae
Subfamily: Rhysodesminae
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. 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.

Species

These 78 species belong to the genus Nannaria:

References

  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. ^ 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.

Further reading

Taxon identifiers
Nannaria
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