The millipede type specimens in the Collections of the Field

Museum of Natural History (Arthropoda: Diplopoda)

PETRA SIERWALD1, JASON E. BOND2 & GRZEGORZ T. GURDA3

1Zoology, Insects, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605

2East Carolina University, Department of Biology, Howell Science complex-N211, Greenville, North Carolina

27858, USA

3 University of Michigan, Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology 1150 W. Medical Center Drive

7739 Medical Sciences II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Abstract

Field Museum’s Millipede Collection currently comprises 376 type lots for 208 species. Types of

the millipede orders Glomeridesmida (4 species), Sphaerotheriida (2 species), Polyzoniida (1 spe

cies), Platydesmida (7 species), Siphonophorida (8 species), Stemmiulida (10 species), Chordeumatida

(17 species), Polydesmida (103 species), Spirobolida (33 species), Spirostreptida (19 species),

and Julida (4 species) are represented. The collection contains type specimens of species described

by the authors Bond & Sierwald (3 species), Chamberlin (95 species), Golovatch (1 species), Golovatch,

Vohland & Hoffman (4 species), Hoffmann (8 species), Keeton (1 species), Loomis (85 species),

Mauriès (2 species), Shear (4 species), Shear & Leonard (1 species), Shelley (1 species),

Vohland (1 species), and Wesener & Sierwald (2 species). Amplinus fortinus Chamberlin, 1952

(Polydesmida: Aphelidesmidae) is identified as a nomen nudum. The millipede type material is

separated from the main collection and vials are organized by order in jars. All lots are indentified

with a unique collection number. Specimen data are cataloged and maintained in a Microsoft Excel

spreadsheet. The collection catalog is slated to be moved to a relational database (KE-EMU) within

the next few years.

Key words: millipede type specimens, Field Museum of Natural History, millipede collection