Polyxenus lagurus

Polyxenus lagurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Polyxenida
Family: Polyxenidae
Genus: Polyxenus
Species: P. lagurus
Binomial name
Polyxenus lagurus
Synonyms [1]

Scolopendra lagura Linnaeus, 1758

Polyxenus lagurus, known as the bristly millipede is a species of millipede found in many areas of Europe and North America.[2][3] It is covered with detachable bristles that have the ability to entangle ants and spiders that attack the animal.[4]

References

  1. ↑ M. Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin & J.-J. Geoffroy (2003). "A revised comprehensive checklist, relational database, and taxonomic system of reference for the bristly millipedes of the world". African Invertebrates. 44 (1): 89–101.
  2. ↑ Hoffman, R. L. (1999). "Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America". Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8: 1–553. p. 13
  3. ↑ William Shear (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844" (PDF). In Zhang, Z.-Q. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa. 3148. pp. 159–164. ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7.
  4. ↑ Jonathan C. Wright & Peter Westh (2006). "Water vapour absorption in the penicillate millipede Polyxenus lagurus (Diplopoda: Penicillata: Polyxenida): microcalorimetric analysis of uptake kinetics". Journal of Experimental Biology. 209 (13): 2486–2494. doi:10.1242/jeb.02280.


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