Sigmoria planca

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: Xystodesmidae
Genus: Sigmoria
Species: Sigmoria planca

Name

Sigmoria planca Loomis, 1944.

Type locality: United States of America, Georgia, Thomas County, Thomasville.

Typus: Holotype ♂ MCZ, 27-VII-1942, legit. V.E. Shelford. (Alsoe see Paratype ♂, 24-VII-1942, legit. V.E. Shelford from Florida, Alachua County, Gainsville.

Synonyms

Cheiropus plancus Loomis, 1944: 171, figs. 3a-b. Protonym; Chamberlin & Hoffman 1958: 26; Shelley, 1984: 267, figs. 1-7. (Note, mis-cited in some catalogs as revised combination); Hoffman, 1999: 302; Marek & Bond, 2007: 37; Marek, Tanabe & Sierwald, 2014: 16.
Sigmoria (Cheiropus) planca (Loomis, 1944); Shelley, 1986: in Shelley & Whitehead, 1986 101. Comb. nov. (repeated as synonym in Marek, Tanabe & Sierwald, 2014: 16) mis-citing Shelley, 1984; supplement to Means et al. 2021: S37. Rest. comb.
Sigmoria (Cheiropus) plancus [sic] (Loomis, 1944); in Hoffman, 1999: 302 (Note: as synonym, mis-citing Shelley, 1984. Else, as the species epithet is a latin 3 termination adjective, the formation here contradicts feminine gender agreement)

References

Primary references

Loomis, H.F. 1944. Millipeds Principally Collected by Professor V. E. Shelford in the Eastern and Southeastern States. Psyche 51: 166–177. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Chamberlin, R.V. & Hoffman, R.L. 1958. Checklist of the Millipeds of North America. Bulletin - United States National Museum (=United States National Museum Bulletin) No. 212. 236 pp. Online Full text Reference page.
Shelley, R.M. 1984. Revision of the milliped genus Cheiropus (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 97(2): 263–284. BHL Reference page.
Shelley, R.M. & Whitehead, D.R. 1986. A reconsideration of the milliped genus Sigmoria, with a revision of Deltotaria and an analysis of the genera in the tribe Apheloriini (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 35: 1-223. BHL Reference page.
Hoffman, R.L. 1999: Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8. Martinsville, VA, 584 pp. PDF Reference page.
Marek, P.E. & Bond, J.E. 2007. A reassessment of apheloriine millipede phylogeny: additional taxa, Bayesian inference, and direct optimization (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Zootaxa 1610: 27–39. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1610.1.2 Reference page.
Marek, Tanabe & Sierwald, 2014. A species catalog of the millipede family Xystodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications 17: 1–117. PDF Reference page.

Links

BHL bibliography
Sigmoria planca – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Sigmoria planca.
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