11th International Congress of Myriapodology
July, 20-24 1999
Bialowieza village-Bialowieza Forest & National Park
POLAND / POLOGNE / POLSKA
Following the procedure of the Copenhagen Congress, the 11th
International Congress of Myriapodology in 1999 has be held at
Bialowieza village in Poland. People found themselves inside the
famous centre of a great forest complex with the oldest Polish
National Park, which is a biosphere reserve and World Heritage
Site. This is the best preserved European lowland forest lying
in the zone of deciduous and mixed forest which could be defined
as "natural" or "old growth" forest.
Thanks to the protection of the park since 1921, a well known
centre of biological and forest sciences was created in the village
Bialowieza, the centre which became world-famous from the work
on reintroduction of European bison. We hope that the community
of myriapodologists will find there a convenient place for the
scientific seminar.
Accomodation for all participants of the Congress were booked
in three hotels in the Palace Park in the village. The Organizing
Committee ensured the special bus from Warsaw to Bialowieza on
19th of July 1999 and from Bialowieza to Warsaw on 25th of July
1999.
We thank you for your interest to participate and communicate
in any format: lecture, paper presentation, poster, discussion.
The Organizing Committee
Jolanta WYTWER
Wojciech JEDRYCZKOWSKI, Grzegorz KANIA, Malgorzata LESNIEWSKA,
Henryk TRACZ
Secretariat: 11th International Congress of Myriapodology,
Museum and Institute of Zoology, PAS, Wilcza 64
00-679 Warszawa, POLAND
tel. +48 22 629-32-21, fax +48 22 629-63-02, e-mail: <jolawyt@robal.miiz.waw.pl>
The present volume puts on record the bulk (33 papers by 52 authors) of the contributions delivered at the 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MYRIAPODOLOGY, held at Bialowieza, Poland on 20-24 July 1999. This book is a landmark of recent progress achieved in studies on Myriapoda and Onychophora, with the papers distributed between the following general topics:
Evolution, Phylogeny and Comparative Morphology (9 contributions)
Anatomy, Biology and Physiology (10 contributions)
Taxonomy and Collections (4 contributions)
Geography, Faunistics and Ecology (10 contributions)
The book is hardbound, B5 format, containing 14 introductory and 396 main text pages, 52 tables, 273 figures or graphs, and 2 indices.
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Warszawa, Poland.
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CONTENTS
Henrik Enghoff
Millipede phylogeny: how much do we know and what is it good for?
: 1-17
Joseph T. Hannibal
Hexecontasoma, a new helminthomorph millipede (Hexecontasomatidae
n. fam.) from the Mazon Creek, Illinois, fauna (Carboniferous,
North America) : 19-35
Per Djursvoll, Sergei I. Golovatch, Kjell Arne Johanson &
Bjarne Meidell
Phylogenetic relationships within Polydesmus sensu
lato (Diplopoda: Polydesmidae) : 37-59
Donatella Foddai & Alessandro Minelli
Phylogeny of geophilomorph centipedes: old wisdom and new
insights from morphology : 61-71
Giuseppe Fusco & Alessandro Minelli
Developmental stability in geophilomorph centipedes : 73-82
Christian S. Wirkner & G¸nther Pass
Comparative morphology of the circulatory organs in Chilopoda
: 83-86
John G. E. Lewis
Centipede antennal characters in taxonomy with particular
reference to scolopendromorphs and antennal development in pleurostigmomorphs
(Myriapoda, Chilopoda) : 87-96
Carol-Constantin Prunescu & Paula Prunescu
Comparative histology of the testes in Scutigera and
Anopsobius (Chilopoda) : 97-103
Chris Kettle, Wallace Arthur, Trevor Jowett & Alessandro
Minelli
A homeotically-transformed specimen of Strigamia maritima
(Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha), and its morphological, developmental
and evolutionary implications : 105-112
Alfred Ernst
Struktur und Verbreitung verschiedener Cuticularsensillen
bei Geophilus longicornis Leach (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha:
Geophilidae) : 113-129
Harald Hauser
Heterodactyly in the genus Craspedosoma (Diplopoda,
Chordeumatida): an observation error : 131-138
Joachim Adis, Berit Hansen, Lars Wilck, Irmgard Adis &
Kurt Hirschel
A spinning apparatus documented in Polydesmida for the first
time : 139-148
Joachim Adis, Sergei I. Golovatch, Lars Wilck & Berit Hansen
On the identities of Muyudesmus obliteratus Kraus,
1960 versus Poratia digitata (Porat, 1889), with first
biological observations on parthenogenetic and bisexual populations
(Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Pyrgodesmidae) : 149-170
Ulf Scheller & Joachim Adis
Possible parthenogenesis in Allopauropus (Myriapoda:
Pauropoda) : 171-177
Helma Brosius-Roggenbuck & Hilke Ruhberg
Studies on the development of ovoviviparous onychophorans,
Austroperipatus eridelos Reid, 1996 and Peripatoides
novaezealandiae (Hutton, 1876) (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)
: 179-190
Angela Huth
Defensive secretions of millipedes: more than just a product
of melting point decrease? : 191-200
Grzegorz Kania
Susceptibility of the millipede Ommatoiulus sabulosus
(Diplopoda, Julida: Julidae) to infection with nematodes : 201-205
Kazimiera Gromysz-Kalkowska, Aneta Unkiewicz-Winiarczyk &
Ewa Szubartowska
The influence of environmental contamination on respiratory
metabolism and humoral immunity in Cylindroiulus burzenlandicus
Verh. (Diplopoda, Julidae) : 207-221
Beverly Swaim Gerdeman, Hans Klompen & Lynell Tanigoshi
Insights into the biology of a mite-millipede association
: 223-227
Sergei I. Golovatch & Richard L. Hoffman
On the diplopod taxa and type material of J. F. Brandt, with
some new descriptions and identities (Diplopoda) : 229-249
Monique Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin
Redescription of Polyxenus albus Pocock (Diplopoda,
Polyxenida), an addition to the French fauna : 251-258
Amazonas Chagas-Junior
A catalogue of the type specimens of Scolopendromorpha in
the Brazilian myriapodological collections (Chilopoda, Arthropoda)
: 259-271
Verena Stagl
The myriapod collection in the Natural History Museum in Vienna
with special reference to the life-work of Carl Attems : 273-280
R. Desmond Kime
Present knowledge of the distribution of European millipedes
(Diplopoda) : 281-294
Michelle Hamer & Robert Slotow
Patterns of distribution and speciation in the genus Doratogonus
(Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae) : 295-311
Andrej Mock
Millipedes (Diplopoda) of the Western Carpathian caves - aÝpreliminary
review : 313-319
Jana Ozanova
Millipede community of the Horka u Hranic NNR Czech Republic
(Diplopoda) : 321-325
Ivan H. Tuf
Communities of centipedes (Chilopoda) in three floodplain
forests of various age in Litovelské Pomoraví (Czech
Republic) : 327-332
Jolanta Wytwer
Centipedes (Chilopoda) communities of some forest habitats
of Puszcza Bialowieska in Poland : 333-342
Malgorzata Lesniewska
Centipedes (Chilopoda) communities of three beech forests
in Poland : 343-349
Henryk Tracz
The Diplopoda and Chilopoda of selected ecotones in northwestern
Poland : 351-360
Karel Tajovsky
Millipede succession in abandoned fields : 361-370
Carme Miquel, Antoni Serra & Eduardo Mateos
A soil population of Polyxenus lagurus in a Mediterranean
forest (Diplopoda, Penicillata: Polyxenida) : 371-382
