Desmoxytes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polydesmida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Myriapoda Classis: Diplopoda Subclassis: Chilognatha Infraclassis: Helminthomorpha Superordo: Merocheta Ordo: Polydesmida

Familia: Paradoxosomatidae
Subfamilia: Paradoxosomatinae
Tribus: Orthomorphini
Genus: Desmoxytes
Species: D. aurata – D. breviverpa – D. cervina – D. corythosaurus – D. delfae – D. des – D. euros – D. flabella – D. golovatchi – D. octoconigera – D. perakensis – D. pinnasquali – D. planata – D. pterygota – D. purpurosea – D. rubra – D. takensis – D. taurina – D. terae – D. waepyanensis

Name

Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923

Synonyms

Pratinus Attems, 1937
Pteroxytes Jeekel, 1980

References

Chamberlin, Ralph V., 1923: Two Diplopod Immigrants taken at Honolulu. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 36: 165–168.
Golovatch, S.I. & Enghoff, H. 1994. Review of the dragon millipede, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Steenstrupia 20(2): 1–71. Reference page.
Henrik Enghoff, Chirasak Sutcharit & Somsak Panha, 2007, Zootaxa 1563: 31–36 [1]
Golovatch, S.I. , Geoffroy, J.J. & Mauriès, 2010: Two new species of the millipede genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) from caves in southern China. Arthropoda Selecta, 19(2): 57-61. Full article: [2].
Likhitrakarn, N., Golovatch, S.I. & Panha, S. 2015:: Two new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamnerlin, 1923, from Laos (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), with redescriptions of all four species of Attems from Vietnam. Zootaxa 3931(4): 483–504. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.4.2. Reference page.
Liu, W., Golovatch, S.I. & Tian, M. 2014. A review of the dragon millipede genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923 in China, with descriptions of four new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 448: 9–26. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.448.8081 . Reference page.
Liu, W-X., Golovatch, S. & Tian, M-Y. 2016. Six new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, mostly from caves in China (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 577: 1–24. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.577.7825.Reference page.
Srisonchai, R., Enghoff, H., Likhitrakarn, N. & Panha, S. 2016. Four colorful new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, from northern Thailand (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae). Zootaxa 4170(1): 93–113. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4170.1.4. Reference page.
Srisonchai, R., Enghoff, H., Likhitrakarn, N. & Panha, S. 2018. A revision of dragon millipedes I: genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, with the description of eight new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 761: 1–177. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.761.24214. Reference page.