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Brachoria evides (Bollman 1887)

The Silver City Mimic Millipede

Paul Marek
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Containing group: Brachoria

Characteristics

Brachoria evides individuals are about 42.1 mm long and 11.6 mm wide (females 44.1 mm X 11.8 mm).  Color: 2-spotted pink (shown above); and 3 spotted yellow (both morphs have a faint purple metatergal stripe with white caudal border)

 

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

 

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Brachoria evides, 3-spotted yellow color morph. © Paul Marek

 

 

Habitat

Brachoria evides specimens were collected during the day (11:30) in a maple forested slope near a small stream.  Individuals of the species were recorded from cedar woods (like B. cedra) in Greene County, Tennessee by Leslie Hubricht.  No other xystodesmids were encountered sympatrically.  Note: Individuals of B. evides may be confused in the field with B. mendota (whose range overlaps with B. evides, but was not found co-occurring).

Distribution

Known only from the four sites in Hamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson and Greene counties in Tennessee.  The closest known Brachoria species, B. mendota and B. hendrixsoni occur about 30 air km west and east of the center of B. evides distribution.

Conservation status

Brachoria evides 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.

Bollman CH. 1887. Descriptions of fourteen new species of North American myriapods. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 10: 617-627.

Keeton WT. 1965. Descriptions of three new species of Brachoria, with notes on established species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 78: 225-240.

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.

Marek P.E., Bond J.E. 2006. Phylogenetic systematics of the colorful, cyanide-producing millipedes of Appalachia (Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae, Apheloriini) using a total evidence Bayesian approach. Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 41: 704-729.

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Scientific Name Brachoria evides
Location USA, Tennessee, Hamblen 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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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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