plazi_species, to science
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#NewSpecies!
New millipede from #tanzania just tiptoed in:

Attemsostreptus leptoptilos

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/34AAD11B-3CA4-44FA-8E21-A13047FC01BC
Publication: http://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.918.2405
#ejtaxonomy

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #diplopoda #millipedes

plazi_species, to science
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!
New giant pill millipede from Thailand just rolled in:

Sphaerobelum turcosa
Holotype: Chulalongkorn University

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/518D6D7F-12F1-4703-97A3-006C7663CE20
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1181.109076


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mgerique, to nature Spanish
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I am not an entomologist, but I think it is a Cylindroiulus caeruleocinctus, one of dozens and dozens of species of millipedes (diplopoda) that can be found in the Iberian Peninsula, many still undiscovered. They have an important role in soil fertilization, fragmenting leaf litter, and turning it into feces that they carry to deeper soil layers. Photo taken in my garden, Alicante province, in mid-September.
iPhone 13 mini + homemade macro lens
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No soy entomólogo, pero creo que es un Cylindroiulus caeruleocinctus, una de los docenas y docenas de especies de milpiés (diplopoda) que se pueden encontrar en la península ibérica, muchas sin descubrir todavía. Tienen un importante papel en la fertilización del suelo, fragmentando la hojarasca, y convirtiéndola en heces que llevan a capas del suelo más profundas. Foto tomada en mi jardín, provincia de Alicante, a mediados de septiembre.

Ich bin kein Entomologe, aber ich glaube, es handelt sich um einen Cylindroiulus caeruleocinctus, eine von Dutzenden Arten von Tausendfüßern (Diplopoda), die auf der Iberischen Halbinsel vorkommen und von denen viele noch unentdeckt sind. Sie spielen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Düngung des Bodens, indem sie Blattabfälle zerkleinern und in Fäkalien verwandeln, die sie in tiefere Bodenschichten tragen. Das Foto wurde Mitte September in meinem Garten in der Provinz Alicante aufgenommen.

I am not an entomologist, but I think it is a Cylindroiulus caeruleocinctus

anomalocaris, to spiders

Bugs & beasts! Here's some arthropods I ran into near our research station Sabah, Borneo a few years back.

A nighttime photo, taken with a flashlight, of a knot in a tree that a baby tarantula has just emerged from. The tree is green and browncand smooth, while the tarantula is entirely hirsute, covered in coarse light gray hairs, hiding its segmentation. It's facing down and is already missing a leg, but that will not stop it from destroying its enemies. It has its two palps surrounding its face, with which it eats; its fangs, in repose: and its two spinnerets that point upward in this picture, two little nubs pointing out of its backside. It looks thoroughly fuzzy and it has a pleasant gray colour - but upon touching it the spectator would find out that it is neither fuzzy nor pleasant.
A hand holding a centipede of the roly-poly variety, so very fat and very short, like a giant roly-poly. Its underside is facing the camera and the 'pede has just emerged from its ball-stage: it lies there all stretched out and many short, caramel brown, pittery pattery legs are reaching toward the viewer, for a hug. At the top is its entirely black head, which has two short, thick antenna and two small eyes - it looks undeniably cute. Its black armour plates can only be seen just at their edges. The background is spotty grass, out of focus.
Nighttime photograph, made by the light of a flashlight, of a trilobite larva, the female of a beetle species where the females never reach the mature stage entirely. It's facing down and to the left and it's sat on rotting wood, with some white dots of fungus pipping up below it. Its head section consists of three interlocking plates in a row, from back to front, forming a hinged shield shape, in dark gray. behind that is the beetle's finely segmented body, also heavily plated, with segments looking like dark gray ribs with yellow thorns at the ends of each one, pointing up and out. You can't see any legs, eyes or mouth parts - just armour plating. It looks armoured and segmented, covered in yellow hooks, like something out of a scifi movie.

russell, to science

Given I'm working on a paper on this little critter today, for , let me introduce Arthropleura. This genus is famous for large (~2.5m long examples), but it's actually the smaller ones - such as this 305 million year old example from france - that are better preserved. Isn't it cute?

russell,

Fragments of big ones examples are usually isolated plates, but here is a 42cm monster from Schneider et al (2010, black and white), and a ~75 cm bit of one from Davies et al (2021, colour). We also know they got big from their trackways. For a long time we were not sure if these creatures were . Nowadays most people accept they are. So, why did they get so big? We often highlight the large amounts of Oxygen in the atmosphere at this time in Earth history as a cause.

A photo of a 75 cm arthropleurid fossil in a slab of rock - the rock is a sandstone, and the fossil is a segmented, off brown/tan imprint on the surface It is one side and a bit of the middle of the animal.

futurebird, to random
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Some of ya'll struggle with romance. Here are some tips. When you meet her she will probably be curled up. Like you, her response to most new things is to curl up in a ball and wait for it to stop or go away. You are a "new thing." What you need to do is sing her a little song so she knows you are also a pill millipede just like her. Then she'll uncurl.

The sounds are called stridulations made by rubbing parts of the exoskeleton together. "cricricricricri"

Eight photos of various pill milipedes in different colors and patterns. Some are black, some light green with yellow stripes. They range in size from about the size of a pea to the size of a billiards ball. Some are shiny and some matte. A large one rests in a human hand.
Six more photos of pill millipedes, brown, speckled gray, blue, orange and more stripes. Some are curled up. Some are walking land pill-shaped. (Photo source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312498514_The_Giant_Pill-Millipedes_order_Sphaerotheriida_-_An_annotated_species_catalogue_with_morphological_atlas_and_list_of_apomorphies_Arthropoda_Diplopoda)

plazi_species, to science
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!
New millipede from Chile just tiptoed by:

Notorhinus floresi
Holotype: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/B5E4AFC7-4DF3-407A-B4B2-A0574A98B372
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/asp.81.e100520


catselbow, to photography
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What you might see when riding a millipede as it zips across the forest floor.

We have a lot of these in our yard. They sometimes get into the kitchen, where they're chased by curious cats.

alexwild, to photography
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This is one you'll need to scroooooollllll dooooowwwwwnnnn for.

(Eurymerodesmus flat-backed millipede. Texas)

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