Sigmoria

Sigmoria
Sigmoria, South Carolina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Polydesmida
Family:	Xystodesmidae
Subfamily:	Rhysodesminae
Tribe:	Apheloriini
Genus:	Sigmoria Chamberlin, 1939
Synonyms [1]
Brevigonus Shelley, 1980 Cheiropus Loomis, 1944 Cleptoria Chamberlin, 1939 Croatania Shelley, 1977 Dixioria Chamberlin, 1947 Dynoria Chamberlin, 1939 Falloria Hoffman, 1948 Furcillaria Shelley, 1981 Hubroria Keeton, 1960 Lyrranea Hoffman, 1963 Prionogonus Shelley, 1982 Sigiria Chamberlin, 1939 Stelgipus Loomis, 1944

Sigmoria is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae. There are more than 60 described species in Sigmoria, found in the eastern United States. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Sigmoria australis, Georgia

Sigmoria latior munda, North Carolina

Sigmoria nantahalae, North Carolina

Sigmoria trimaculata, Pennsylvania

Species

These 67 species belong to the genus Sigmoria: ^[4]

• Sigmoria abbotti (Hoffman, 1967)
• Sigmoria acuminata (Hoffman, 1956)
• Sigmoria aequalis (Shelley, 1981)
• Sigmoria agrestis (Loomis, 1944)
• Sigmoria ainsliei (Chamberlin, 1921)
• Sigmoria angulosa Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria aphelorioides Shelley, 1986
• Sigmoria arcuata (Shelley, 1982)
• Sigmoria areolata Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria australis Shelley, 1986
• Sigmoria austrimontis Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria beameri Marek, Means & Hennen, 2021
• Sigmoria bidens (Causey, 1942)
• Sigmoria bipraesidens (Hoffman, 1967)
• Sigmoria brooksi Hoffman, 1956
• Sigmoria catawba (Shelley, 1977)
• Sigmoria convoluta (Shelley, 1981)
• Sigmoria crassicurvosa Shelley, 1986
• Sigmoria disjuncta Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria divaricata (Shelley, 1982)
• Sigmoria divergens Chamberlin, 1939
• Sigmoria fumimontis Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria haerens Shelley, 1982
• Sigmoria hoffmani Shelley, 1976
• Sigmoria houstoni Chamberlin, 1943
• Sigmoria icana (Chamberlin, 1939)
• Sigmoria inornata Shelley, 1986(Note: Authority/date elsewhere as Shelley, 1981, however it is a later replacement name)
• Sigmoria intermedia (Hoffman, 1948)
• Sigmoria laminata (Shelley, 1981)
• Sigmoria laticurvosa Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria latior (Brölemann, 1900)
• Sigmoria leucostriata Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria lyrea Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria macra (Chamberlin, 1939)
• Sigmoria medialis Chamberlin, 1949
• Sigmoria mimetica (Chamberlin, 1918)
• Sigmoria munda Chamberlin, 1939
• Sigmoria nantahalae Hoffman, 1958
• Sigmoria nigrimontis (Chamberlin, 1947)
• Sigmoria pela (Chamberlin, 1918)
• Sigmoria pendulata Shelley, 1986(Note: species elsewhere miswritten as "pendula" however that is a subsequent spelling contra to the protonym)
• Sigmoria persica (Hoffman, 1963)
• Sigmoria picapa (Keeton, 1960)
• Sigmoria planca (Loomis, 1944)(Note: species elsewhere miswritten as "plancus" however it is a gender variable adjective, so should be in feminine)
• Sigmoria prolata Shelley, 1986
• Sigmoria quadrata Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria rileyi (Bollman, 1889)
• Sigmoria robusta Shelley, 1986
• Sigmoria rubromarginata (Bollman, 1887)
• Sigmoria saluda (Shelley, 1977)
• Sigmoria serrata (Shelley, 1984)
• Sigmoria shelfordi (Loomis, 1944)
• Sigmoria sigirioides Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria simplex Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria stenogon Chamberlin, 1942
• Sigmoria stenoloba Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria stibarophalla Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria thrinax (Shelley, 1982)
• Sigmoria translineata Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria triangulata Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria truncata Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria tuberosa Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria unicoi Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria watauga Shelley, 1986
• Sigmoria wrighti (Hoffman, 1956)
• Sigmoria xerophylla Shelley, 1981
• Sigmoria yemassee (Shelley, 1977)

References

1. "ITIS report, Sigmoria" . Retrieved 2024-12-29.
2. "GBIF, Sigmoria" . Retrieved 2024-12-29.
3. "BugGuide.net, Sigmoria genus Information" . Retrieved 2024-12-29.
4. Sierwald, P.; Spelda, J. "Millibase". doi: 10.14284/370 . Retrieved 2021-09-22.

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.
• Golovatch, Sergei I.; Kime, R. Desmond (2009). "Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review" (PDF). Soil Organisms. 81: 565–597.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Sigmoria at iNaturalist
• Media related to Sigmoria at Wikimedia Commons