Online information ~ Centipedes & Millipedes

Online information

A number of publications (identification guides, distribution atlases, etc) of interest to British and Irish workers are publicly and freely available online.  A selection is listed below (also see 'Additional Resources'). 

 

Modern County Distribution Atlases

Nottinghamshire: Distribution Atlases (v3 updated 2018) - downloadable as pdf ~ Millipedes ~ Centipedes

 

Early Species Distribution Atlases

Atlases covering Britain and Ireland

Several earlier atlases are available online as scanned pdf files.

  • Provisional atlas of the centipedes of the British Isles (Barber & Keay, 1988). 127pp. ~ download pdf here
  • Preliminary atlas of the millipedes of the British Isles (British Myriapod Group, 1988). 65pp. ~ download pdf here

Local or County Atlases

  • Millipedes, Centipedes and Woodlice of the Sheffield Area (Richards, P., 1995) ~ download pdf here
  • Atlas of Oxfordshire Myriapoda: Millipedes & Centipedes (Gregory, S. & Campbell, J., 1996) ~ download pdf here

     

Europe and beyond...

Faune de France

Many of the earlier volumes of the Fauna de France series are now available online to download free in pdf format. The complete list can be found at: http://www.faunedefrance.org/.This includes:

Schubartiana

The German Myriapoda journal SCHUBARTIANA now has a dedicated website ~  www.schubartiana.de.  All previous articles are downloadable as pdf, many relevant to our UK fauna. Click on tab to 'All Issues' on left-hand side.

Centre Internationale de Myriapodologie (CIM) ~ Myriapod literature search

Publicly and freely available at https://myriapodology.org/myrlit

ChiloBase - World Catalogue (checklist) of Centipedes 

ChiloBase is intended to be a catalogue of all known centipedes (Chilopoda) of the world. It is an electronic database, publicly and freely available at:  chilobase.biologia.unipd.it

ChiloKey - Interactive Key to European Centipedes

ChiloKey is a matrix-based, interactive key to all 179 species of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) recorded from Europe. It is intended to assist in identification of subadult and adult specimens, by means of microscopy and simple dissection techniques whenever necessary.

The key is freely available through the web at: www.biologia.unipd.it/chilokey/ or www.interactive-keys.eu/chilokey/

MilliBase - World Catalogue (checklist) of Millipedes

MilliBase is intended to be a catalogue of all known centipedes (Chilopoda) of the world. It is an electronic database, publicly and freely available at: www.millibase.org/

Myriatrix ~ The Fellegship of the Rings

Myriatrix is the proposed Virtual Research Environment of the International Society of Myriapodology (CIM).

It is publicly and freely available at: http://myriatrix.myspecies.info/