Sigmoria

Sigmoria is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae. There are more than 40 described species in Sigmoria.[1][2][3][4]

Sigmoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Polydesmida
Family: Xystodesmidae
Genus: Sigmoria
Chamberlin, 1939

Species

These 45 species belong to the genus Sigmoria:

  • Sigmoria aberrans Chamberlin (almond millipede)
  • Sigmoria acuminata (Hoffman, 1956)
  • Sigmoria ainsliei (Chamberlin, 1921)
  • Sigmoria areolata Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria aspila Chamberlin
  • Sigmoria australis Shelley, 1986
  • Sigmoria austrimontis Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria bidens (Causey, 1942)
  • Sigmoria brachygon Chamberlin, 1940
  • Sigmoria brooksi Hoffman, 1956
  • Sigmoria conclusa Chamberlin, 1939
  • Sigmoria dactylifera Hoffman, 1956
  • Sigmoria disjuncta Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria furcifera Hoffman, 1949
  • Sigmoria inornata Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria kleinpeteri (Hoffman, 1949)
  • Sigmoria laticurvosa Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria latior (Brölemann, 1900)
  • Sigmoria macra (Chamberlin, 1939)
  • Sigmoria mariona Chamberlin, 1939
  • Sigmoria mimetica (Chamberlin, 1918)
  • Sigmoria munda Chamberlin, 1939
  • Sigmoria nantahalae Hoffman, 1958
  • Sigmoria nigrescens Hoffman, 1950
  • Sigmoria nigrimontis (Chamberlin, 1947)
  • Sigmoria obscura Hoffman
  • Sigmoria pendulosa Shelley, 1986
  • Sigmoria planca
  • Sigmoria plancus (Loomis, 1944)
  • Sigmoria quadrata Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria rigida Shelley, 1986
  • Sigmoria rubromarginata (Bollman, 1888)
  • Sigmoria sigirioides Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria simplex Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria stenogon Chamberlin, 1942
  • Sigmoria stenoloba Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria translineata Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria triangulata Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria trimaculata (Wood, 1864)
  • Sigmoria truncata Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria tuberosa Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria watauga Shelley, 1986
  • Sigmoria whiteheadi Shelley, 1986
  • Sigmoria wrighti (Hoffman, 1956)
  • Sigmoria zyga Chamberlin, 1949

References
  1. "Sigmoria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Sigmoria". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading
  • Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8. ISBN 9781884549120.
  • Golovatch, Sergei I.; Kime, R. Desmond (2009). "Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review" (PDF). Soil Organisms. 81: 565–597.
  • Media related to Sigmoria at Wikimedia Commons


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