Illacme

Illacme is a genus of millipedes in the family Siphonorhinidae.[1] It includes two species.[2] Illacme plenipes was first described in 1928 from San Benito County, California, and rediscovered in 2005. In 2016, Illacme tobini was described based on a single male specimen collected in 2006 from Lange Cave, in Sequoia National Park, 240 km (150 mi) east of the known habitat for I. plenipes.[3]

Illacme
A female Illacme plenipes with 618 legs
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Siphonophorida
Family: Siphonorhinidae
Genus: Illacme
Cook & Loomis, 1928
Species

References
  1. Shelley 1996.
  2. Marek, Krejca & Shear 2016, p. 1.
  3. Marek, Krejca & Shear 2016, p. 4.

Sources
  • Marek, Paul E.; Krejca, Jean K.; Shear, William A. (October 20, 2016). "A new species of Illacme Cook & Loomis, 1928 from Sequoia National Park, California, with a world catalog of the Siphonorhinidae (Diplopoda, Siphonophorida)". ZooKeys. 626: 1–43. doi:10.3897/zookeys.626.9681. PMC 5096369. PMID 27833431.
  • Shelley, R. M. (December 1, 1996). "A description of Siphonophora portoricensis Brandt (Diplopoda: Siphonophorida: Siphonophoridae), with a Catalogue of Ordinal Representatives in the New World". Journal of Natural History. 30 (12): 1799–1814. doi:10.1080/00222939600771051.


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