CHAPTER II 



MILLIPEDES 



Classification and distribution 



The Diplopoda, commonly called millipedes, were formerly as- 

 sociated with the Chilopoda, Pauropoda and Symphyla in a class, 

 the 'Myriapoda', which contained all the terrestrial Arthropods 

 that were not Crustacea, Arachnida or Insecta, but they are now 



Fig. 5. Examples of millipede families: 1 . Glomeridae, 2. Polyzoniidae, 

 3. Chordeumidae, 4. Craspedosomidae, 5. Polydesmidae, 

 6. Strongylosomidae, 7. lulidae, 8. Blaniulidae, 9. Spirobolidae, 

 10. Polyxenidae. (Drawings not to scale.) (After various authors.) 



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