A julid milliped in Chilean Patagonia, and a compilation of ordinal representatives in South America and associated islands (Diplopoda: Julida)

Authors

Rowland M. Shelley, North Carolina State Museum of Natural SciencesFollow
Elizabeth D. Morrill, San Francisco State UniversityFollow
David A. Faber, TahomaFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

Insecta Mundi 0366: 1–8

Comments

Published in 2014 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. P.O. Box 141874 Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 USA http://centerforsustematicentomology.org/

Copyright held by Rowland M. Shelley, Elizabeth D. Morrill and David A. Faber. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons, Attribution Non-Commercial License.

Abstract

An adventive female Julidae (Julida), discovered in a moist, grassy depression in the Peninsula de Brunswick south of Punta Arenas, Chile, and assigned to Cylindroiulus Verhoeff, 1894, is the fi rst vouchered milliped from southern Patagonia. The southernmost milliped ever collected in Chile, South America, and the Western Hemisphere, it may also constitute the southernmost in the world as the site is only ~1,176 km (735 mi) northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula. Records are consolidated of the two families, three genera, and fi ve species of this Holarctic order that are known from South America. They are documented from Argentina, Chile, and southern Peru and Brazil; three species are known from the Juan Fernandez Islands.