Marek Paul E, Hall Charity L, Lee Cedric, Bailey James, Berger Matt C, Kasson Matt T, Shear William
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Entomology, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg United States of America.
Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA Unaffiliated Blacksburg United States of America.
Zookeys. 2023 Jun 21;1167:265-291. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1167.102537. eCollection 2023.
The millipede fauna inhabiting deep soil are poorly known. They are small and threadlike, slow moving, lacking pigmentation, and rarely encountered due to their obscure underground way of life. One family, the Siphonorhinidae, encompasses four genera and 12 species in a fragmentary distribution in California, southern Africa, Madagascar, the Malay Archipelago, and Indo-Burma. The family is represented in the Western Hemisphere by a single genus, Cook & Loomis, 1928 from California, with its closest known relative, Verhoeff, 1939, from southern Africa. A new species of this family is documented from soil microhabitats in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, Marek & Shear, Based on this discovery and the recent documentation of other endogean millipede species, we show that these grossly understudied subterranean fauna represent the next frontier of discovery. However, they are threatened by encroaching human settlement and habitat loss, and conservation of this species and other subterranean fauna is of high importance.
栖息于深层土壤的千足虫类群鲜为人知。它们体型小且如线状，行动缓慢，缺乏色素沉着，因其隐秘的地下生活方式而很少被发现。有一个科，即管鼻千足虫科，包含四个属和12个物种，分布零散，见于加利福尼亚、非洲南部、马达加斯加、马来群岛和印度 - 缅甸。在西半球，该科仅由一个属代表，即1928年来自加利福尼亚的库克氏管鼻千足虫属，其已知的亲缘关系最近的属是1939年来自非洲南部的韦氏管鼻千足虫属。马雷克和希尔记录了该科的一个新物种，它来自洛杉矶大都市区的土壤微生境。基于这一发现以及最近对其他地下千足虫物种的记录，我们表明这些研究严重不足的地下动物群代表了下一个发现前沿。然而，它们正受到人类定居点扩张和栖息地丧失的威胁，保护该物种及其他地下动物群至关重要。
