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Brachoria glendalea (Chamberlin 1918)

The Glendale Hills Mimic Millipede

Paul Marek
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Containing group: Brachoria

Characteristics

Brachoria glendalea individuals are about 40.5 mm long and 10.7 mm wide (females 42.7 mm X 10.8).  Color: 2-spotted yellow.

 

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Brachoria glendalea genitalia - left male gonopodal acropodite (with setae removed): (Left) medial view and (Right) magnified apical view. © Paul Marek

 

 

Habitat

Brachoria glendalea specimens were collected during the day (9:30 and 13:00) in two localities: at the type locality, in a disturbed area in Nashville, and at Radnor Lake State Nature Preserve.  I found two millipedes within the city limits of Nashville, one of which, a large female, I did not collect.  The Nashville locality is a shaded and disturbed gully with Hedera helix blanketing a large part of the soil.  No other xystodesmids were encountered sympatrically here.  Brachoria glendalea from Radnor Lake were found in a maple, birch, and tulip poplar forest in a moist gully.  One other xystodesmid encountered co-occurring at the Radnor Lake locality is Falloria mimetica.

Distribution

Known from the Interior Plateau of Tennessee in Davidson County south through Marshall County and into Maury, Bedford, and Coffee counties; and west to Hickman County.  The closest known Brachoria species, B. initialis occurs south and east of B. glendaleaBrachoria hubrichti occurs east in the environs of the Cumberland Plateau and Sequatchie Valley.

Conservation status

Brachoria glendalea is threatened by habitat loss due to agriculture (especially growing demand for paper products), coal mining, development, and the invasion of exotic species.

References

Marek P.E. 2010. A revision of the Appalachian millipede genus Brachoria Chamberlin, 1939 (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae: Apheloriini). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 159: 817-889.

Chamberlin R.V. 1918. Myriapods from Nashville, Tennessee. Psyche 25: 23-30.

Chamberlin R.V., Hoffman RL. 1958. Checklist of the millipeds of North America. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 212: 1-236.

Keeton W.T. 1959. A revision of the millipede genus Brachoria (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae) Proc. US Nat. Mus. 109: 1-58.

Hoffman R.L. 1999. Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication. No. 8. Martinsville: Virginia Museum of Natural History.

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Scientific Name Brachoria glendalea
Location USA, Tennessee, Davidson Co.
Reference Marek P.E. 2010. A revision of the Appalachian millipede genus Brachoria Chamberlin, 1939 (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae: Apheloriini). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 159: 817-889.
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Sex m
Life Cycle Stage adult
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Collection FMNH
Collector Paul Marek
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Copyright © Paul Marek
About This Page
Work on the millipede Tree of Life pages was supported by a U.S. National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant to Paul Marek and Jason Bond (DEB 0607996) and a Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy Grant to Petra Sierwald, Jason Bond, and William Shear (DEB 0529715).

Paul Marek
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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