Soil is an immense habitat for diverse organisms across the tree of life, but just how many
organisms live in soil is surprisingly unknown. Previous efforts to enumerate soil biodiversity …

Phoresy is a type of interaction in which one species, the phoront, uses another species, the
dispersal host, for transportation to new habitats or resources. Despite being a widespread …

Abstract Fauna Europaea is Europe's main zoological taxonomic index, making the scientific
names and distributions of all living, currently known, multicellular, European land and …

Metabarcoding of bulk or environmental DNA has great potential for biomonitoring of
freshwater environments. However, successful application of metabarcoding to biodiversity …

Myriapods, including the diverse and familiar centipedes and millipedes, are one of the
dominant terrestrial arthropod groups. Although molecular evidence has shown that …

We review the state-of-the-art approaches currently applied in myriapod taxonomy, and we
describe, for the first time, a new species of millipede (Ommatoiulus avatar n. sp., family …

Abstract The Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania represent a hotspot for biological diversity
of global importance. The level of endemism is high, and Eastern Arc biodiversity has been …

The external and internal anatomy of millipedes (Diplopoda) is poorly known compared to
some of the other myriapod and arthropod groups. Due to both language barriers, which …

Myriapoda, a subphylum of Arthropoda, comprises four classes, Chilopoda, Diplopoda,
Pauropoda and Symphyla. While recent molecular evidence has shown that Myriapoda is …

The millipede family Xystodesmidae includes 486 species distributed primarily in temperate
deciduous forests in North America and East Asia. Species diversity of the family is greatest …