Thomas Wesener

Thomas Wesener, German myriapodologist

• Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Center for Taxonomy and Evolutionary Research (Section Myriapoda), Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 18 taxon names authored by Thomas Wesener

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2008

• Wesener, T.; Enghoff, H. & Wägele, J.-W. 2008: Pachybolini - a tribe of giant Afrotropical millipedes: arguments for monophyly and the description of a new genus from Madagascar (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Pachybolidae). Invertebrate systematics, 22(1): 37–53. DOI: 10.1071/IS07008 Reference page. 

2009

• Wesener, T. & Enghoff, H. 2009: Revision of the millipede subfamily Spiromiminae, a Malagasy group with Indian connections? (Diplopoda Spirobolida Pachybolidae). Tropical Zoology 22: 71–120. PDF Reference page. 

2014

• Wesener, T. 2014. A new phylogenetic analysis of the Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda) with a revision of the Australian giant pill-millipedes. Invertebrate systematics 28(2): 196–213. DOI: 10.1071/IS13048 Reference page. 
• Wesener, T. 2014. The identity of Australia's northern-most giant pill-millipedes (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida). Zootaxa 3861(4): 363–368. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3861.4.6 Reference page. 
• Wesener, T. 2014. Redescription of 'Polyzonium' malagassum, a new synonym of Rhinotus purpureus (Pocock, 1894), with notes about the occurrence of the order Polyzoniida on Madagascar (Diplopoda). Zootaxa 3790(4): 587–594. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3790.4.7 Reference page. 

2015

• Oeyen, J.P. & Wesener, T. 2015: Steps towards a phylogeny of the pill millipedes: non-monophyly of the family Protoglomeridae, with an integrative redescription of Eupeyerimhoffia archimedis (Diplopoda, Glomerida). Zookeys 510: 49–64. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.510.8675 Full article view Reference page. 
• Wesener, T. 2015: The Giant Pill-Millipedes of Nepal (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). Zootaxa 3964(3): 301–320. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.3.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Wesener, T. 2015. No millipede endemics north of the Alps? DNA-Barcoding reveals Glomeris malmivaga Verhoeff, 1912 as a synonym of G. ornata Koch, 1847 (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae). Zootaxa 3999(4): 571–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.4.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Wesener, T. 2015. Integrative redescription of a forgotten Italian pill millipede endemic to the Apuan Alps—Glomeris apuana Verhoeff, 1911 (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae). Zootaxa 4039(2): 391–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.2.11. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Wilbrandt, J., Lee, P., Read, H. & Wesener, T. 2015. A first integrative study of the identity and origins of the British Dwarf Pill Millipede populations, Trachysphaera cf. lobata (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5176. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5176. Reference page. 

2016

• Golovatch, S.I. & Wesener, T. 2016. A species checklist of the millipedes (Myriapoda, Diplopoda) of India. Zootaxa 4129(1): 1–75. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4129.1.1. Reference page. 
• Wesener, T. 2016. Redescription and phylogenetic analysis of the type species of the giant pill-millipede genus Sphaeropoeus Brandt, 1833 (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). Zootaxa 4184(1): 141–157. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.9. Reference page. 
• Wesener, T., Voigtländer, K., Decker, P., Oeyen, J.P. & Spelda, J. 2016. Barcoding of Central European Cryptops centipedes reveals large interspecific distances with ghost lineages and new species records from Germany and Austria (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha). ZooKeys 564: 21-46. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.564.7535.Reference page. 

2017

• Liu, W-X., Golovatch, S. & Wesener, T. 2017. Four new species of the millipede genus Eutrichodesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Laos, including two with reduced ozopores (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae). ZooKeys 660: 43—65. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.660.11780. Reference page. 
• Liu, W-X, Wesener, T., Golovatch, S.I. & Tian, M-Y. 2017. Contributions to the millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979 from China, with four new species and first results on phylogeny based on DNA-barcoding (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae). Zootaxa 4243(3): 455–482. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4243.3.3. Reference page. 
• Sagorny, C. & Wesener, T. 2017. Two new giant pill-millipede species of the genus Zoosphaerium endemic to the Bemanevika area in northern Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae). Zootaxa 4263(2): 273–294. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.2.4. Reference page. 

2018

• Mesibov, R., Wesener, T. & Hollier, J. 2018. A replacement name for Dalodesmus sakalava (de Saussure & Zehntner, 1901) (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae). Zootaxa 4413(2): 389–391. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.2.11 Reference page. 
• Moritz, L., Wesener, T. & Koch, M. 2018. An apparently non-swinging tentorium in the Diplopoda (Myriapoda): comparative morphology of the tentorial complex in giant pill-millipedes (Sphaerotheriida). Pp 77–91 In: Stoev, P. & Edgecombe, G.D. (eds.) 2018. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Myriapodology, Krabi, Thailand. ZooKeys 741: 1–269. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.741.21909 Reference page. 
• Reip, H.S. & Wesener, T. 2018. Intraspecific variation and phylogeography of the millipede model organism, the Black Pill Millipede Glomeris marginata (Villers, 1789) (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae). Pp 93–131 In: Stoev, P. & Edgecombe, G.D. (eds.) 2018. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Myriapodology, Krabi, Thailand. ZooKeys 741: 1–269. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.741.21917. Reference page. 
• Semenyuk, I.I., Golovatch, S.I. & Wesener, T. 2018. Four new species of giant pill-millipedes from Vietnam (Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). Zootaxa 4459(3): 535–550. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.7 Reference page. 

2019

• Hilgert, M., Akkari, N., Rahmadi, C. & Wesener, T. 2019. The Myriapoda of Halimun-Salak National Park (Java, Indonesia): overview and faunal composition. Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e32218. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.7.e32218 Reference page. 
• Stoev, P., Moritz, L. & Wesener, T. 2019. Dwarfs under dinosaur legs: a new millipede of the order Callipodida (Diplopoda) from Cretaceous amber of Burma. Zookeys, 841: 79–96. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.841.34991 Reference page. 
• Wesener, T. 2019. First records of giant pill-millipedes from Laos (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). Zootaxa 4563(2): 201–248. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4563.2.1 pdf Reference page. 

2020

• Semenyuk, I.I., Golovatch, S.I. & Wesener, T. 2020. Some new or poorly-known Zephroniidae (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida) from Vietnam. Pp 37–60 In Korsós, Z. & Dányi, L. 2020. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary (25‒31 August 2019). ZooKeys, 930: 1–229. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.930.47742 Reference page. 
• Short, M., Vahtera, V., Wegener, T. & Golovatch, S.I. 2020. The millipede family Polyxenidae (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) in the faunas of the Crimean Peninsula and Caucasus, with notes on other European Polyxenidae. Zootaxa 4772(2): 306–332. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.2.4 Reference page. 
• Wesener, T. 2020. Ecotone shifts in southern Madagascar: first barcoding data and six new species of the endemic millipede genus Riotintobolus (Spirobolida, Pachybolidae). ZooKeys, 953: 1–29. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.953.53977 Reference page. 
• Wesener, T. & Anilkumar, P.A. 2020. The millipedes collected by the Museum "La Specola" on Madagascar 1989/1991, with the description of three new species of giant pill-millipedes (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae). Pp 3–35 In Korsós, Z. & Dányi, L. 2020. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary (25‒31 August 2019). ZooKeys, 930: 1–229. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.930.47620 Reference page. 

2021

• Wesener, T., Wongthamwanich, N. & Moritz, L. 2021. Description of the first species of Glomeridesmida from Thailand (Diplopoda, Glomeridesmida, Glomeridesmidae). Zookeys 1024: 137–156. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1024.63678 Reference page. 
• Rosenmejer, T., Enghoff, H., Moritz, L., Wesener, T. 2021. Integrative description of new giant pill-millipedes from southern Thailand (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). European Journal of Taxonomy. 762(1): 108–132. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.762.1457 Reference page. 
• Wesener, T., Sagorny, C. 2021. Seven new giant pill-millipede species and numerous new records of the genus Zoosphaerium from Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae). European Journal of Taxonomy. 758(1): 1–48. DOI: 0.5852/ejt.2021.758.1423 Reference page. 

2024

• Srisonchai, R., Likhitrakarn, N., Sutcharit, C. & Wesener, T. 2024. Integrative taxonomy reveals two new giant pill-millipedes of the genus Zephronia Gray, 1832 from eastern Thailand (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). ZooKeys 1212: 29–64. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1212.126536 Reference page.