The class Diplopoda encompasses over 12 000 described species arranged in sixteen orders, with diversity expressed through segmental paranota, specialized gonopods, chemical defence glands and varied ...
Myriapoda encompasses four terrestrial classes—Chilopoda (centipedes), Diplopoda (millipedes), Symphyla and Pauropoda—whose evolutionary relationships were long inferred from morphology alone. Over ...
Members of the class Diplopoda are distributed on all continents, excepting the Antarctica (Hoffman, 1980; Golovatch & Kime, 2009). Millipedes are commonly observed on tropical, subtropical, and ...