Selenocheir sinuata

Selenocheir sinuata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Polydesmida
Family:	Xystodesmidae
Genus:	Selenocheir
Species:	S. sinuata
Binomial name
Selenocheir sinuata Shelley, 1994

Selenocheir sinuata is a species of flat-backed millipede in the family Xystodesmidae, endemic to Northern California. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} The Species was first described by Rowland M. Shelley in 1994 based on samples collected by J. S. Buckett and M. R. Gardner in 1966 ^[5]

Description

Selenocheir sinuata often has a banded color pattern with black metaterga and reddish to orange/yellow tergites. The color on the tergites is also sometimes incomplete with the paranota and central portion of the tergites having color and the mid portions to either side black. ^[5]

Populations of S sinuata are found in the foothills bordering the northern portions of the Sacramento Valley from Humboldt county east to Shasta county and south to El Dorado county. ^[5]

References

1. "Selenocheir sinuata". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Selenocheir sinuata". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Selenocheir sinuata species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
5. Shelley, Rowland M. (1994). "The Chonaphini, a biogeographically significant milliped tribe in eastern and western North America (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)". Brimleyana. 20: 111–200.

Further reading

• Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. Vol. 8. ISBN   9781884549120.