New Species13 Feb 2024

Five New Millipedes with Henrik Enghoff

Who wouldn’t want to receive thousands of millipedes in the mail? When Dr. Henrik Enghoff does it’s through his partnership with FoRCE, the Forest Restoration and Climate Experiment, a group researching tropical forest dynamics and their relationship with things like human disturbance and climate change. They collect millipedes through their field season and Henrik identifies them to increase our knowledge of millipede systematics. In this interview he shares stories about the diversity of millipedes, the exciting world of scanning electron microscopy, and why it’s important to care about creatures that others might pass by.

Henrik Enghoff’s paper “A mountain of millipedes XI. The trachystreptoform spirostreptids of the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania” is in volume 918 of the European Journal of Taxonomy.

It can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.918.2405

A transcript of this episode can be found here: Henrik Enghoff - Transcript

New Genus: Udzungwastreptus

New Species: Attemsostreptus cataractae, Attemsostreptus leptoptilos, Attemsostreptus julostriatus, Lophostreptus magombera, Udzungwastreptus marianae

Episode image credit: A.R. Marshall

Learn more about FoRCE: https://force-experiment.com/

And project DiSSCo: www.dissco.eu

Other recent papers by Henrik and his team:

A new distinct, disjunct giant millipede of the genus Spirostreptus from Tanzania, and a solution for orphaned Spirostreptus species – Zootaxa https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5389.2.9

A new species of Lophostreptus Cook, 1895 discovered among syntypes of L. regularis - Zookeys https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1188.115802

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