MEMOIRES DU MUSEUM NATIONAL D'fflSTOIRE NATURELLE
TOME 169 ZOOLOGE
Ada Myriapodologica
edited by
Jean-Jacques GEOFFROY*, Jean-Paul MAURIES* & Monique NGUYEN DUY- JACQUEMIN***
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle Laboratoire d'ficologie generale 4, avenue du Petit Chateau F-91800 Brunoy
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle Laboratoire de Zoologie, Arthropodes 61, rue Buff on F-75231 Paris Cedex 05
*** Museum national d'Histoire naturelle Laboratoire de Zoologie, Arthropodes 61, rue Buffon F-75231 Paris Cedex 05
EDITIONS DU MUSEUM PARIS 1996 CONTENTS/SOMMAIRE Pages
Introduction 13 Jean-Jacques GEOFFROY
List of participants and contributors 19
Allocution d'ouverture 21 Jean-Marie DEMANGE
HISTORICAL MYRIAPODOLOGY
Myriapodology before and after Martin Lister's «Journey to Paris in the Year 1698» 25 Stephen P. HOPKIN
ADVANCES IN SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY
An approach to the revision of the East Asian millipede genus Anaulaciulus 3 5 Zoltan KORSOS
The taxa of Rhymogona (Diplopoda: Craspedosomatidae): a ring species. Part one: genetic analysis of the population structure 45 Adolf SCHOLL & Ariane PEDROLI-CHRISTEN
Rhymogona (Diplopoda, Craspedosomatidae), un genre monospecifique. Deuxieme partie : revision basee sur les resultats morphologiques, genetiques et faunistiques 5 3 Ariane PEDROLI-CHRISTEN & Adolf SCHOLL
Mastigophorophyllon (Verhoeff,1897) et Karpatophyllon Jawlowsky, 1928, genres des Carpates (Chordeumatida, Diplopoda) 61 Traian CEUCA
Sur la remarquable conformation des apophyses genitales males chez un polydesmide neotropical 67 Ionel TABACARU
Records of paradoxosomatid millipedes of India 7 3 Kubra BANO
Systematics and biogeography of Ctenophilus Cook, 1898. A genus of centipedes with disjunct distribution (Geophilomorpha, Schendylidae) 7 9 Luis A. PEREIRA
Review and perspective of study on myriapodology of China 81 Daqing WANG & Jean-Paul MAURIES
A taxonomic study of polydesmoid millipedes (Diplopoda) based on their mandibular structures ; •••••:•• Kiyoshi ISHII & Hiroshi TAMURA , .; ACTA MYRIAPODOLOGICA
Systematique et biogeographie des diplopodes penicillates des lies Canaries et du Cap Vert 113 Monique NGUYEN DUY - JACQUEMIN
Une approche des Diplopoda Penicillata de l'Amerique du Nord 127 Bruno CONDE
About the taxomomy of Spanish Scolopendrellidae 137 Maria Teresa DOMINGUEZ RODRIGUEZ
Some observations on the onychophoran fauna of Tasmania 139 Hilke RUHBERG & Robert MESIBOV
COMMUNITY STUDIES AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
Millipedes as aids for the reconstruction of glacial refugia (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) 151 Jbrg SPELDA
On the distribution and faunogenesis of Himalayan millipedes (Diplopoda): Preliminary results 163 Sergei I. GOLOVATCH & Jochen MARTENS
Etude systematique et ecologique des myriapodes dans le Pare National de Chrea (Atlas blideen), Algerie 175 Ourida ABROUS-KHERBOUCHE
Etude des communautes de myriapodes (Chilopoda et Diplopoda) des forets prepyreneennes (Huesca, Espagne) 187 Antoni SERRA, Maria Cristina VICENTE & Eduardo MATEOS
Study of centipedes communities of three habitats in the Province of Ciudad Real .. 205 Andres GARCIA RUIZ & Francisco J. SANTCBANEZ
Synanthropisation of the Diplopoda fauna of Poland 209 Wojcieh B. JEDRYCZKOWSKI
Chilopoda of urban greens in Warsaw 213 Jolanta WYTWER
Centipedes of Poznan town (Poland) 221 Malgorzata LESNIEWSKA
Contribution a la connaissance des lithobiomorphes (Chilopoda) de la region palestinienne 225 Stefan NEGREA & Zachiu MATIC (f)
Check-list, distribution and habitat in Bulgarian centipedes 235 Georgi RIBAROV
Geographical distribution of diplopods in Great Britain and Ireland; possible causal factors 243 Anthony D. BARBER & Richard E. JONES
Millipedes recorded in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 257 Richard Desmond KJME ACTAMYRIAPODOLOGICA 9
Some patterns in the distribution and origin of the lithobiomorph centipede fauna of the Russian Plain (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) 265 Nadezhda T. ZALESSKAJA & Sergei I. GOLOVATCH
The French Millipede Survey: towards a comprehensive inventory and cartography of the Diplopoda in France... 269 Jean-Jacques GEOFFROY
Faunistique. des mille-pattes de Suisse (Diplopoda) 281 Ariane PEDROLI-CHRISTEN
SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION: PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS
On myriapod / insect interrelationships 283 Otto KRAUS & Margarete KRAUS
Morphology and evolution of circulatory organs in the Tracheata 291 Giinther PASS
Some problems in the systematics of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda) 293 Arkady A. SCHILEYKO
Plesiomorphic and apomorphic characters states in the class Chilopoda 299 Carol C. PRUNESCU
A preliminary study on phytogeny and biogeography of the family Paracortinidae (Myriapoda: Callipodida): a cladistic analysis 307 Daqing WANG
The penis as a phylogenetic character in the millipede family Julidae 313 HenrikENGHOFF
REPRODUCTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL TRENDS IN DIPLOPODA AND CHILOPODA
Functional morphology and evolution in genitalia of Diplopoda - Helminthomorpha 327 Andreas TADLER
Sperm competition and the evolution of millipede genitalia 331 Mandy BARNETT & Steven R. TELFORD
Preliminary data on the anatomy of the genital systems in Craterostigmus tasmanianus (Craterostigmomorpha) and Esastigmatobius longitarsis (Henicopidae, Lithobiomorpha) (Chilopoda) 341 Carol C. PRUNESCU, Robert MESIBOV & Keizaburo SHINOHARA
On some structural abnormalities in Dignathodon microcephalum (Lucas, 1846) and their possible significance 347 Francisco J. SANTIBANEZ & Andres GARCIA RUIZ
Developmental trends in the post-embryonic development of lithobiomorph centipedes 351 Alessandro MINELLI, Enrico NEGRISOLO & Giuseppe FUSCO 10 ACTAMYRIAPODOLOGICA
Etude de la reproduction et du developpement post-embryonnaire de Lithobius pilicornis Newport, 1844 (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha) 359 Antoni SERRA & Maria Carme MIQUEL Developpement post-embryonnaire et cycle biologique de Bothropolys elongatus Newport dans I'Est Algerien 365 Tarek DAAS, Noureddine BOUZERNA & Michel DESCAMPS The segmentation of the head and anterior trunk of millipedes (Diplopoda) - A reassessment 371 Wolfgang DOHLE
On periodomorphosis, iteroparity and life-cycles in males and females of Tachypodoiulus niger (Leach) (Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Julidae) in France, Germany and Great-Britain 37 3 Francois SAHLI
PHYSIOLOGY, ECOPHYSIOLOGY, CELL BIOLOGY
cAMP influence on brain and germinal cells RNA syntheses in Lithobius forficatus (L.) an autoradiographic study 3 85 Michel DESCAMPS, Catherine JAMAULT-NAVARRO & Marie-Chantal FABRE Cadmium kinetics in Lithobius forficatus (L). during experimental contamination and decontamination 391 Sylvie GERARD, Marie-Chantal FABRE & Michel DESCAMPS Cytochemistry of the tergite epicuticle of Glomeris marginata (Villers) (Myriapoda, Diplopoda): Preliminary experimental results 395 Philippe COMPERE, Stephane DEFISE & Gerhard GOFFINET Coxal organs of chilopoda: the exocrine glands in Lithobius forficatus 403 Jorg ROSENBERG & Hartmut GREVEN
The phenoloxidase from the hemolymph of Diplopoda 411 Willi E. R. XYLANDER
In vitro cellular immune reactions of hemocytes against bacteria and their differential degradation in myriapods 421 Lutz NEVERMANN & Willi E. R. XYLANDER Evidence for antibacterial activity in haemolymph of Diplopoda: preliminary results 431 Grzegorz KANIA, Jan JAROSZ, Mariola ANDREJKO & Malgorzata STEFANIAK
Supernumerary malpighian tubules in chilopods 437 Carol C. PRUNESCU & Paula PRUNESCU
The structure and possible function of the spiracles of some Scolopendridae (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) 441 John G. E. LEWIS, Trevor J. HILL & Gavin E. WAKLEY ACTAMYRIAPODOLOGICA 11
Population metabolism of millipedes at two altitudinal zones in the Central Alps (Tirol, Austria) 451 Erwin MEYER, Peter MARSONER & Elisabeth FISCHER
Variation de la teneur en eau en fonction de la taille corporelle dans une population du diplopode Polyzonium germanicum 461 Guy VANNIER & Jean-Francois DAVID
The respiratory response to changing temperature in millipedes belonging to the genus Glomeris Latreille, 1802 473 Vladimir SUSTR
Submersion tolerance of some diplopod species 477 Klaus Peter ZULKA
Eversible vesicles in Myriapoda 48 3 Frantisek WEYDA
POPULATION BIOLOGY, SOIL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR
Etude comparative des techniques d'echantillonnage des macroarthropodes saprophages (Isopoda and Diplopoda) 485 Etienne BRANQUART & Charles GASPAR
Experimental behaviour of a tropical invertebrate: Epiperipatus biolleyi (Onychophora: Peripatidae) 493 Julian MONGE-NAJERA, Zaidett BARRIENTOS & Franklin AGUILAR
Scolopendra morsitans Linnaeus, 1758: a characteristic prey of the African carpet viper Echis ocellatus Stemmler, 1970 495 Pascal REVAULT
The life cycle of Cylindroiulus latestriatus (Curtis, 1845) 501 Karin VOIGTLANDER
Life-cycle of the millipede Melogona voigti (Verhoeff, 1899) from a suburban forest in South Bohemia 509 Karel TAJOVSKY
Compared life-cycles and reproductive strategies in local populations of Rossiulus kessleri (Lohmander) (Julidae, Diplopoda) from isolated habitats 515 Bella R. STRIGANOVA
Survival strategy of the terricolous millipede Cutervodesmus adisi Golovatch (Fuhrmannodesmidae, Polydesmida) in a blackwater inundation forest of Central Amazonia (Brazil) in,response to the flood pulse 523 Joachim ADIS, Sergei I. GOLOVATCH & Susanne HAMANN
Cycles d'activite compares de populations de diplopodes edaphiques dans un ecosysteme forestier tempere 533 Jean-Jacques GEOFFROY & Marie-Louise CELERIER 12 ACTA MYRIAPODOLOGICA
Traces de l'activite de diplopodes dans des sols et des sediments karstiques du Maroc atlantique 555 Colette JEANSON, Hsai'n EL AISSAOUI & Jean-Pierre ADOLPHE
Feeding rates and nutrient assimilation in the millipede Jonespeltis splendidus (Diplopoda, Paradoxosomatidae) 561 KubraBANO
Sexual selection in savanna millipedes: products, patterns and processes 565 Steven R. TELFORD & John Mark DANGERFIELD
Trophic preferences of three soil macroarthropods (preliminary study) 577 Jorge P. CANCELA DA FONSECA & Leila MEZIANE
Ecology and behaviour of Xanthodesmus physkon (Attems 1898), an aggregating paradoxosomatid from tropical West Africa 585 Dieter MAHSBERG
Displacements en masse dans le sud-est de la France chez Ommatoiulus sabulosus (Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Julidae) avec invasions d'habitations 587 Francois SAHLI
COMMUNITIES IN ECOSYSTEMS
Distribution patterns and qualitative composition of the centipede fauna in forestal habitats of mainland Greece 5 99 Marzio ZAPPAROLI
On abundance, phenology and natural history of Symphyla from a mixedwater inundation forest in Central Amazonia, Brazil 607 Joachim ADIS, Jose Wellington DE MORAIS & Ulf SCHELLER
The ecology of savanna millipedes in Southern Africa 617 John Mark DANGERFIELD & Steven R. TELFORD
The diplopod community of a mediterranean oak forest in Southern France: ecological and evolutionary interest 627 Jean-Francois DAVID
Centipedes (Chilopoda) of some forest communities in Slovenia 63 5 Ivan KOS
Changes in the millipede (Diplopoda) community during secondary succession from a wheat field to a beechwood on limestone 647 Stefan SCHEU
Centipedes from Italian agroecosystems and their possible value as pest control agents 657 Marzio ZAPPAROLI
AUTHOR INDEX/INDEX DES AUTEURS 663
SYSTEMATIC INDEX / INDEX SYSTEMATIQUE 665