Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group

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BMIG Bulletin Volume 38 (2026)  

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• Millipede (Diplopoda) identification characteristics viewed by scanning electron microscopy – Paul Richards  download here
• The distributions and habitat associations of Hyloniscus riparius (C. Koch) and Trachelipus rathkii (Brandt) at a floodplain meadow on the River Avon, Worcestershire – Amy Fleming &  Andrew Cherrill  download here
• First record of Philoscia muscorum (Scopoli, 1763) (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae) in the Central Iberian Plateau: discovery of a population in the Province of Guadalajara (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) – Jaime Gálvez-Barrado1, Mauro Quintanilla-Viana & Lluc Garcia  download here

Field meeting reports

• Report on the BMIG field meeting in Cannington in 2023  -  TO BE ADDED

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BMIG Bulletin Volume 37 (2025)

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• Chaetophiloscia elongata (Dollfus, 1884) (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae): a woodlouse new to Britain – Andy Musgrove and Richard Wilson download here
• 15 years on: An update to Woodlice and Waterlice in Britain and Ireland, part 2 ~ Non-native species, not yet naturalised – Steve J. Gregory  download here
• The House Centipede Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha) in Britain: here to stay? – Steve J. Gregory download here
• Visualisation of a possible simple “Synanthropy Spectrum” for Centipedes, Millipedes and Woodlice  – Anthony D. Barber  download here
  Reginald Innes Pocock FRS, FZS (1863-1947): Some Notes & Papers on British and Irish Myriapods – Anthony D. Barber  download here

Field meeting reports  

• International Congress of Myriapodology in Serbia: 20-26 July 2025 – Helen J. Read  download here

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BMIG Bulletin Volume 36 (2024)

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• Ctenoscia minima (Dollfus, 1892): A woodlouse new for the British Isles from a Garden Centre in Essex (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae) – Thomas D. Hughes  download here
• Ctenoscia minima (Dollfus, 1892) (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae): the earliest British record from Ventnor Botanic Gardens, Isle of Wight – Mark G. Telfer  download here
• Acaeroplastes melanurus (Budde-Lund, 1885) (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Porcellionidae) new to Britain from the Isles of Scilly – Mark G. Telfer download here
• The Conquest Continues: First Outdoor Records of Armadillidium arcangelii Strouhal, 1929 in the British Isles (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Armadilliididae) – Thomas D. Hughes, Annie Northfield & Warren Maguire  download here
• 15 years on: An update to Woodlice and Waterlice in Britain and Ireland, part 1 ~ Native and Naturalised Species – Steve  J. Gregory  download here
• Early years of the British Myriapod Group – Anthony D. Barber download here
• ‘For more years than he may care to remember’ – Tony Barber and centipede recording – Paul T. Harding  download here
• First Data On Centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) From The Cíes Islands (North-West Spain) – David Cabanillas  download here

Field meeting reports

• Report on the BMIG field meeting in Preston Montford in 2022 – Steve J. Gregory  download here

Obituaries

• Richard Desmond Kime (1932 – 2023) – Paul Harding, Tony Barber & Helen Read download here
• Jean-Paul Mauriès-Belou (1934 – 2022) – Jean-Jacques Geoffroy  download here
• Stephen Laurence Sutton (1938 – 2023) –  Paul Harding  download here

Book Reviews

• Atlas of the centipedes of Britain and Ireland by A.D. Barber – Steve J. Gregory  download here
• Animals Under Logs and Stones by C. Philip Wheater, Helen J. Read & Charlotte W. Wheater – Anthony D. Barber  download here 
• Atlas of the millipedes of the Czech Republic by Pavel Kocourek, Petr Dolejš & Alena Kovaříková – Helen Read  download here

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BMIG Bulletin Volume 35 (2023)

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• Hyloniscus riparius (C. Koch, 1838); a pygmy woodlouse new for the UK from the Worcestershire Avon (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) – Steve J. Gregory & Gary Farmer download here   
• Polydesmus taranus Verhoeff, 1936, a millipede new to Britain, ‘hiding’ among additional British localities for Polydesmus asthenestatus Pocock, 1894 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae) – Steve J. Gregory download here 
• Ecological studies on Trachysphaera lobata (Ribaut, 1954) (Glomerida: Glomeridae) in the UK, with comments on the results of a taxonomic study – Helen Read, Paul Lee, Thomas Wesener & Jeanne Wilbrandt download here   
• William Elford Leach and his myriapod studies – Anthony D. Barber and Helen J. Read download here   
• On the species names of some British millipedes – Helen J. Read & Henrik Enghoff download here   
• New records of centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda) from some European countries – David Cabanillas download here   
• Preliminary data on the myriapod fauna (Chilopoda and Diplopoda) of some nature reserves in Poland – Artsiom Ostrovsky & Oleg Aleksandrowicz download here   
• A female Lithobius forficatus (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha) with unusually damaged gonopod spurs – Anthony D. Barber download here   

Field meeting reports    

• Report on the BMIG field meeting in South Wales in 2018 - Steve J. Gregory, Anthony D. Barber & Paul Lee download here
• Report on the BMIG field meeting in Newton Stewart in 2019 - Steve J. Gregory, Paul Lee, Anthony D. Barber & Warren Maguire download here

Obituaries    

• Bjarne Andreas Meidell (1943 – 2022) by Per Djursvoll, Hilke Ruhberg & Helen Read download here

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BMIG Bulletin Volume 34 (2022)

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• Re-discovery of Geophilus proximus C.L. Koch, 1847 in Shetland (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae) – Keith Lugg, Steve J. Gregory & Mike Pennington download here   
• Re-discovery of Lamyctes africanus (Porath, 1871) (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Henicopidae) in Britain – Steve J. Gregory & Nicola Garnham download here
• Lithobius curtipes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha), a centipede with an enigmatic distribution – Anthony D. Barber download here
• Ecological revision of Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835) (Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae) in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands – David Cabanillas & Jairo Robla download here
• Armadillidium arcangelii Strouhal, 1929 (Isopoda: Oniscidea): a step towards the conquest of Europe? – Franck Noël, Steve J. Gregory & Georgios Agapakis download here    
• Review of the study of woodlice (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in Belarus – Artsiom Ostrovsky download here
• Cylindroiulus bouvieri (Brölemann, 1896) a long-overlooked synonym of C. parisiorum (Brölemann & Verhoeff, 1896) (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae) – Jean-Jacques Geoffroy, Helen J. Read & Henrik Enghoff download here 

Field meeting reports    

• Report on the BMIG field meeting in Lincolnshire in 2013 – Steve J. Gregory, A. D. Barber & Paul Lee download here

Obituaries    

• Ulf Scheller 1925-2021 (by Göran Andersson) and Ulf Scheller and pauropods recorded in Britain (by A. D. Barber) download here
• Bjarne Meidell download here

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BMIG Bulletin Volume 33 (2021)

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• John Lewis, a celebration of fifty years of centipede studies – A.D. Barber download here
• A new BMIG Intertidal Marine Isopod Recording Scheme – Warren Maguire download here
• Three apparently un-described silk millipedes (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida) recorded from south Wales – Christian Owen & Steve J. Gregory download here
• Cylindroiulus dahli Demange, 1970 (Julidae) and Orthochordeumella pallida (Rothenbühler, 1899) (Chordeumatidae): two millipedes new to Britain and Propolydesmus testaceus (C. L. Koch, 1847) (Polydesmidae) a millipede new to Scotland – Michael B. Davidson & Richard B. Weddle download here
• Porcellionides sexfasciatus (Budde-lund, 1885) new for the UK from Eden Project (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Porcellionidae) – Steve J. Gregory, Keith Lugg & James Harding-Morris download here
• Preliminary observations of the ectoparasitic fungus Rickia laboulbenioides De Kesel (Laboulbeniales) in Britain – Steve J. Gregory download here
• Metatrichoniscoides celticus Oliver & Trew, 1981 new for England (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) – Frank Ashwood & Steve J. Gregory download here
• Morphological and genetic confirmation of the millipede Chordeuma sylvestre C.L.Koch, 1847 new to Ireland – Willson Gaul & Andrew J. Tighe download here
• Brachyiulus lusitanus Verhoeff, 1898 new for the UK from the Eden Project (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae) – Steve J. Gregory download here
• Observations of millipedes in Kitley cave, Devon, including the first confirmed British record of Polydesmus asthenestatus Pocock 1894 – Lee Knight download here
• Observations of Trichoniscoides sarsi Patience, 1908 (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) on the west coast of Britain – Frank Ashwood & Steve J. Gregory download here
• Confirmation of the presence of Philoscia muscorum (Scopoli, 1763) (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae) in the Iberian peninsula – Lluc Garcia, Jairo Robla & David Cabanillas download here
• First recent record of the centipede Strigamia maritima (Leach, 1817) from Germany (Myriapoda, Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha) – Jan Philip Oeyen, Lars Podsiadlowski & Thomas Wesener download here
• A speckled Trichoniscus pusillus Brandt, 1833 (Isopoda: Trichoniscidae) from the Green Lane by Asham Meadow, Birlingham, Worcestershire – P.F. Whitehead download here

Meeting Reports

• Report on the BMIG spring field meeting to Linlithgow 2015 – Duncan Sivell download here
• Report on the BMIG field meeting at Morecambe 2017 – Paul Lee, A.D. Barber & Steve J. Gregory download here

Obituaries

• Ron Daniel download here; Erwin Meyer download here; Walter Hüther download here

Book Review

• Projet d’atlas des chilopodes (Chilopoda) des Pays de la Loire – A.D. Barber download here

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BMIG Bulletin Volume 32 (2020)

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• Further observations of Philoscia affinis Verhoeff, 1908 (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Philosciidae) in Britain and Ireland: distribution, habitat and identification – Steve J. Gregory download here
• Upland centipedes in North Wales with a review of the Welsh Chilopoda – Anthony D. Barber & Richard Gallon download here
• Some recent observations of woodlice (Isopoda: Oniscidea), millipedes (Diplopoda) and centipedes (Chilopoda) from artificially heated glasshouses – Steve J. Gregory & Keith Lugg download here
• Troglomyces rossii Santamaría, Enghoff & Reboleira, 2014 (Laboulbeniales) new to Britain and Ireland on Ophyiulus germanicus (Verhoeff) (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae)  – Mark G. Telfer download here
• Melogona voigtii (Verhoeff, 1899) (Chordeumatida: Chordeumatidae): a millipede new for England – Steve J. Gregory & Nicola Garnham download here
• The occurrence of Metatrichoniscoides leydigii (Weber, 1880) (Isopoda: Oniscidea) on the Ribble Estuary, Lancashire – Thomas D. Hughes download here
• The distribution of Oritoniscus flavus (Budde-Lund 1906) in VC83 Midlothian (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) – Warren Maguire download here
• The discovery of Haplophthalmus montivagus Verhoeff, 1941 (Isopoda: Oniscidea) at Treborth Botanic Garden, North Wales – Thomas D. Hughes & David G. Hill download here
• A new location for the rare French endemic woodlouse Alloschizidium pruvoti (Racovitza, 1907) (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – Thomas D. Hughes download here
• Long form of Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L.Koch, 1835) recorded from the Channel Islands (Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae) – Anthony D. Barber, Steve J. Gregory & Andy Marquis download here
• The first record of Eurygeophilus multistiliger (Verhoeff, 1899) (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae) in the north west of the Iberian Peninsula: an ecological approach – David Cabanillas, Jairo Robla & Jorge Rodríguez-Pérez download here

Meeting Reports

• Report on the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, 25-31 August 2019, Budapest Hungary – Helen Read  download here

Book Reviews

• The Lithoiomorpha of the continental Iberian Peninsula (Chilopoda) by Étienne Iorio & Karin Voigtländer – Tony Barber download here
• Doppelfüßer (Diplopoda) Deutschlands [Millipedes of Germany] by Harald Hauser and Karin Voigtländer – Helen Read download here

Miscellanea

• Myriapod Trivia - Curiosities of British Natural History & The Rabbit and the Centipede download here

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BMIG Bulletin Volume 31 (2019)

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• Cylindroiulus sagittarius (Brolemann, 1897) new for the UK (Julida: Julidae) and a new host for Rickia laboulbenioides (Laboulbeniales) – Steve J. Gregory and Christian Owen  download here
• The first record of the dwarf pill millipede Geoglomeris subterranea Verhoeff, 1908 in western Germany (Diplopoda, Glomerida) and the associated Myriapoda fauna of the Quirrenbach (Siebengebirge, NRW) – Thomas Wesener, Nils Behr and Leif Moritz  download here
• Rickia laboulbenioides De Kesel (Laboulbeniales) on Cylindroiulus britannicus (Verhoeff) (Julida: Julidae) – Malcolm storey  download here
• The latest on the oldest – Paul A. Selden  download here
• First observation of filial cannibalism in Scolopendra cingulata Latreille, 1829 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) – David Cabanillas, Álvaro Albatros, Andrés García-Ruiz and Francisco Rodríguez-Luque  download here
• Identification of Lithobius melanops (Newport) and Lithobius tricuspis (Meinert)  – A.D. Barber and Steve J. Gregory  download here
• First record of Chaetophiloscia cellaria (Dollfus, 1884) from the Channel Islands (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae) – Steve J. Gregory & Andy Marquis  download here
• Observations on two woodlouse species (Isopoda; Oniscidea) new to North Wales: Metatrichoniscoides celticus Oliver & Trew, 1981 and Philoscia affinis Verhoeff, 1908 – Thomas D. Hughes  download here
• Philoscia affinis Verhoeff, 1908 (Isopoda: Philosciidae) new to Ireland – Roy Anderson  download here
• Armadillidium pulchellum (Zenker, 1798), a new record of pill woodlouse (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) for the fauna of Belarus – Artsiom Ostrovsky  download here

Obituaries

• Otto Kraus download here; Jean-Marie Demange download here; Rowland M. Shelley download here; Wolfram Dunge download here; Stefan Negrea (by Mihaela Ion)  download here

Field meeting reports

• Report of BMIG field meeting at Juniper Hall 2016 – Paul Lee, A.D. Barber & Steve J.Gregory  download here

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BMIG Bulletin Volume 30 (2018)

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•  “per isopoda ad astra” - 50 years of isopod recording –  Paul T. Harding  download here
• A woodlouse new to Britain: Anchiphiloscia pilosa (Budde-Lund, 1913) (Oniscidea: Philosciidae) in a heated butterfly house in Bedfordshire – Mark G. Telfer and Steve J. Gregory  download here
• Philoscia affinis Verhoeff, 1908 new to the UK (Isopoda: Philosciidae) – Stijn Segers, Pepijn Boeraeve & Pallieter De Smedt  download here
• Styloniscus mauritiensis (Barnard) – an overlooked woodlouse of tropical glasshouses new for England and Wales (Isopoda, Oniscidea: Styloniscidae) – Steve J. Gregory & Keith Lugg  download here
• UV fluorescence in a critically endangered isopod, Pseudolaureola atlantica (Vandel, 1977) – Amy-Jayne Dutton and David Pryce  download here
• Cranogona dalensi Mauriès, 1965 new for the UK from south Wales (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida: Anthogonidae) – Steve J. Gregory, Christian Owen & Jörg Spelda  download here
• Ommatoiulus moreleti (Lucas, 1860) and Cylindroiulus pyrenaicus (Brölemann, 1897) new for the UK (Diplopoda, Julida: Julidae) – Steve J. Gregory, Christian Owen, Greg Jones & Emma Williams  download here
• Ophyiulus germanicus (Verhoeff, 1896) new for the UK from Oxford (Diplopoda, Julida: Julidae) – Steve J. Gregory  download here
• Cylindroiulus apenninorum (Brölemann, 1897) (Diplopoda: Julidae) found in Ireland – Roy Anderson  download here
• New records of Henia (Chaetechelyne) duboscqui (Verhoeff, 1943) and of other centipedes from Corsica (Chilopoda) together with some notes on the French species of Henia – Etienne Iorio & Clovis Quindroit  download here

Field meeting reports

• BMIG field meeting at Haltwhistle 2014 – P. Lee, A.D. Barber & Steve J. Gregory  download here
• 17th International Congress on Myriapodology, 23-26 July 2017, Krabi, Thailand – Helen Read  download here
• 10th International Symposium on the Biology of Terrestrial Isopods, August 2017, Budapest, Hungary – Elisabeth Hornung  download here

Book Reviews  download here

• Séchet, E. & Noël, F. (2015) Catalogue commenté des Crustaces Isopodes terrestres de France métropolitaine (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea). Mémoirs de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, Tome 16.
• Mnohonožky České republiky [Millipedes of the Czech Republic] by Pavel Kocourek, Karel Tajovský and Petr Dolejs (2017).
• Atlas of European millipedes 2: Richard Desmond Kime and Henrik Enghoff.  European Journal of Taxonomy.  Volume 346.

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BMIG Bulletin Volume 29 (2016)

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• On the terrestrial landhopper Arcitalitrus dorrieni (Hunt, 1925) (Amphipoda: Talitridae): Identification and current distribution – Steve J. Gregory  download here
• Early county lists of non-marine Isopoda and Myriapoda from Cambridgeshire compiled by the Rev. Leonard Jenyns – Paul T. Harding and A.D. Barber   download here
• Is Porcellio laevis (Latreille) declining in Britain and Ireland? – Paul T. Harding   download here
• Cylindroiulus apenninorum (Brölemann, 1897) (Diplopoda, Julida: Julidae) new for the UK from the Isle of Wight and South Devon – A. D. Barber & Helen J. Read   download here
• A third British site for Metatrichoniscoides leydigii (Weber, 1880) – Paul Richards   download 
• New records and habitat observations for Trichoniscoides species (Isopoda, Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) from Bedfordshire and Derbyshire – Paul Richards   download here
• Identification of North European Melogona females, and the first record of M. gallica (Latzel, 1884) from Denmark (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida: Chordeumatidae) – Henrik Enghoff   download here
• Confirmation of the presence of Lamyctes africanus (Porath, 1871) in France (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha: Henicopidae) – Etienne Iorio   download here

Miscellanea

• Defence fluids of millipedes; a warning – Thomas Wesener  download here

Field meeting reports

• Report of BMIG field meeting at Claonaig, Kintyre, September 2010: Woodlice and Millipedes including additional Scottish records of Chordeuma sylvestre C.L.Koch and Leptoiulus belgicus Latzel – Steve J. Gregory  download here

Book reviews

• Les chilopodes (Chilopoda) de la moitié nord de France (by Etienne Iorio & Aurélien Labroche) – A.D. Barber   download here

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