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Editor, Dr A. Minelli (minelli@bio.unipd.it
Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58 B, 35131 Padova, Italy
Editor, Dr W. Shear (wshear@email.hsc.edu
Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943, USA

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2008

 Article 
Zootaxa 1768: 61-68 (14 May 2008) 5 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 15 Apr. 2008
Cylindroiulus mitta n.sp., a new Tunisian millipede (Diplopoda, Julida: Julidae) and notes on the Cylindroiulus distinctus group
NESRINE AKKARI (Tunisia) & HENRIK ENGHOFF (Denmark)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1764: 53-65 (7 May 2008) 4 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 9 Apr. 2008
Cave millipeds of the United States. VII. New species and records of the genus Pseudotremia Cope. I. Species from West Virginia, USA (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae)
WILLIAM A. SHEAR (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1743: 1-16 (7 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 23 references                              Accepted: 27 Feb. 2008
On a new genus of endemic millipedes (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Anthroleucosomatidae) from the Balkan Peninsula
BOZIDAR P. M. CURCIC, SLOBODAN E. MAKAROV, VLADIMIR T. TOMIC, BOJAN M. MITIC, SRECKO B. CURCIC, BORIS D. DUDIC, LUKA R.LUCIC & NEBOJSA JASNIC (SERBIA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1706: 1-50 (20 Feb. 2008) 2 plates; 288 references                              Accepted: 11 Dec. 2007
An annotated world catalogue of the millipede order Callipodida (Arthropoda: Diplopoda)
PAVEL STOEV (Bulgaria), PETRA SIERWALD (USA) & AMBER BILLEY (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1693: 41-48 (31 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 11 Jan. 2008
Cave millipeds of the United States. VI. Sequoiadesmus krejcae, n. gen., n. sp., from Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California, USA (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidea, Macrosternodesmidae)
WILLIAM A. SHEAR
& ROWLAND M. SHELLEY (USA)

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2007

 Article 
Zootaxa 1668: 327-341 (21 Dec. 2007) 3 plates;  95 references                             Accepted: 7 Nov. 2007
Centipede systematics: progress and problems
GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1668: 343-362 (21 Dec. 2007)  164 references                                           Accepted: 7 Nov. 2007
Taxonomy of extant Diplopoda (Millipeds) in the modern era: Perspectives for future advancements and observations on the global diplopod community (Arthropoda: Diplopoda)
ROWLAND M. SHELLEY (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1656: 51-68 (7 Dec. 2007)  6 plates; 51 references                            Accepted: 6 Nov. 2007
The milliped genus Tidesmus Chamberlin, 1943 (Polydesmida: Macrosternodesmidae)
WILLIAM A. SHEAR & ROWLAND M. SHELLEY (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1639: 57-67 (16 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2007
Revalidation of the subgenus Dactylotergitius Verhoeff, and redescription of Otostigmus (D.) caudatus Brolemann and Otostigmus (D.) cavalcantii Bucherl (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae: Otostigminae)
AMAZONAS CHAGAS-JUNIOR, IRENE KNYSAK & SAMUEL P. G. GUIZZE (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1610: 27-39 (8 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 3 Sep. 2007
A reassessment of apheloriine millipede phylogeny: additional taxa, Bayesian inference, and direct optimization (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)
PAUL E. MAREK & JASON E. BOND (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1608: 21-30 (5 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 31 Aug. 2007
Review of Cermatobius Haase, 1885 (Chilopoda: Henicopidae) of China and Neotype Designation for Cermatobius longicornis (Takakuwa, 1939)
HUI-QIN MA, DA-XIANG SONG & MING-SHENG ZHU (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1585: 59-68 (14 Sep. 2007)  0 plates; 34 references                            Accepted: 26 Jul. 2007
Revision of the genus Scleropauropus Silvestri, 1902 (Myriapoda: Pauropoda: Pauropodidae)
ULF SCHELLER (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1563: 31-36 (29 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 2 Aug. 2007
The shocking pink dragon millipede, Desmoxytes purpurosea, a colourful new species from Thailand (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)
HENRIK ENGHOFF (Denmark), CHIRASAK SUTCHARIT (Thailand) & SOMSAK PANHA (Thailand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1541: 1-16 (2 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 21 Jun. 2007
Rediagnoses of the milliped genera Pseudojulus Bollman, 1887, and Arvechambus Causey, 1963, in the southeastern USA; description of P. mississippiensis, n. sp. and proposal of the subtribe Pseudojulina (Julida: Parajulidae: Parajulinae: Aniulini)
ROWLAND M. SHELLEY (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1541: 57-63 (2 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 5 Jul. 2007
New data on millipedes of the family Julidae (Diplopoda, Julida) from Altai, Siberia
ELENA V. MIKHALJOVA, PAVEL S. NEFEDIEV & JULIA S. NEFEDIEVA (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1532: 23-39 (26 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
Revalidation of the milliped genus Amplaria Chamberlin 1941 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae), and description of two new species from caves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California
WILLIAM A. SHEAR & JEAN K. KREJCA (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 1524: 23-34 (9 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
Additions to the milliped family Caseyidae. I. Caseya richarti, n. sp., and new records of previously described species in the genus Caseya Cook and Collins 1895 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Caseyidae)
WILLIAM A. SHEAR & WILLIAM P. LEONARD (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1485: 1-12 (28 May 2007) 0 plates; 69 references                            Accepted: 12 Apr. 2007
Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the centipede genera Chomatobius, Ityphilus, Hapleurytion, Plateurytion, and Steneurytion (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha)
Lucio Bonato, Luis A. Pereira & Alessandro Minelli (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1463: 1-12 (30 Apr. 2007) 8 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 3 Feb. 2007
Cave millipeds of the United States. V. The genus Idagona Buckett & Gardner (Chordeumatida, Conotylidae, Idagoninae)
WILLIAM A. SHEAR
(USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1460: 25-34 (27 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 28 Mar. 2007
A new genus and two new species of Lithobiid Centipedes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from China
HUI-QIN MA, DA-XIANG SONG & MING-SHENG ZHU
(P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1452: 1-23 (19 Apr. 2007) 9 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 5 Dec. 2006
A taxonomic review of the southern African millipede genus, Bicoxidens Attems, 1928 (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Spirostreptidae), with the description of three new species and a tentative phylogeny
TAROMBERA MWABVU, MICHELLE L. HAMER & ROBERT H. SLOTOW (South Africa)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1450: 63-68 (19 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 13 Mar. 2007
A second species in the millipede suborder Sinocallipodidea Shear, 2000 (Diplopoda: Callipodida)
PAVEL STOEV (Bulgaria), HENRIK ENGHOFF (Denmark), SOMSAK PANHA (Thailand), MARUT FUANGARWORN
(Thailand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1447: 63-68 (12 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 13 Mar. 2007
First description of the male of the millipede Eurygyrus euboeus (Verhoeff, 1901) (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae)
PAVEL STOEV
(Bulgaria)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1440: 61-68 (5 Apr. 2007) 3 plates; 22 references                             Accepted: 28 Feb. 2007
Arvechamboides ocala, n. gen., n. sp., a new aniulinine milliped from peninsular
Florida, USA (Julida: Parajulidae)
ROWLAND M. SHELLEY (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1409: 23-50 (19 Feb. 2007)  13 plates; 38 references                             Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
A new genus of scutigerid centipedes (Chilopoda) from Western Australia, with new characters for morphological phylogenetics of Scutigeromorpha
G.D. EDGECOMBE & L. BARROW (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1400: 59-68 (29 Jan. 2007)  3 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 29 Nov. 2006
Ommatoiulus malleatus n. sp., a new Tunisian millipede, with notes on the punicus species group of Ommatoiulus (Diplopoda, Julidae)
N. AKKARI (Tunisia) & K. VOIGTLANDER (Germany)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1396: 1-84 (22 Jan. 2007)  21 plates; 133 references                       Accepted: 30 Oct. 2006
The Mecistocephalidae of the Japanese and Taiwanese islands
(Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha)
M. ULIANA, L. BONATO & A. MINELLI

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1393: 53-59 (18 Jan. 2007)  4 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 13 Dec. 2006
Tingupa tlingitorum, n. sp., a new milliped from Haines, Alaska, USA, with notes on the generic distribution and a revised key to species (Chordeumatida: Tingupidae)
W.A. SHEAR & R.M. SHELLEY (USA)

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2006

Zootaxa 1354: 31-44 (9 Nov. 2006) 7 plates; 5 references                              Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
Dirt-encrusted and dragon millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) from Queensland, Australia
R. MESIBOV (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1350: 45-53 (2 Nov. 2006)  1 plate; 44 references                         Accepted: 20 Sept. 2006
The millipede genus Epanerchodus Attems, 1901 in the Korean Peninsula, with a description of a new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae)
E.V. MIKHALJOVA (Russia)& K.-Y. LIM (R. Korea)
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Zootaxa 1285: 31-50 (11 Aug. 2006) 7 plates; 25 references                            Accepted:  19 Jul. 2006
Nesoressa crawfordi, n. gen., n. sp., a montane island milliped in New Mexico, USA; proposal of the new tribe Nesoressini and a preliminary cladogram of the lineage "Aniulina" (Julida: Parajulidae)
R.M. SHELLEY & M.F. MEDRANO (USA)
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Zootaxa 1256: 59-68 (10 Jul. 2006)  3 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 21 Jun. 2006
New records of the milliped order Polyzoniida from Korean Peninsula, with a redescription of Kiusiozonium okai (Takakuwa & Miyosi, 1949) (Diplopoda)
E.V. MIKHALJOVA (Russia) & K.-Y. LIM (R. Korea) 
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Zootaxa 1254: 29-43 (6 Jul. 2006)  6 plates; 26 references                                 Accepted: 13 Apr. 2006
A review of the millipede genus Dorypetalum Verhoeff, 1900 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Dorypetalidae)
P. STOEV (Bulgaria) & H. ENGHOFF (Denmark) 
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Zootaxa 1253: 1-50 (6 Jul. 2006)  119 references                                             Accepted: 28 Apr. 2006
A chronological catalog of the New World species of Scolopendra L., 1758 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)
R.M. SHELLEY (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1224: 45-58 (5 Jun. 2006) 5 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 7 Apr. 2006
New species of the genus Hyleoglomeris from Korea (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae)
E.V. MIKHALJOVA (Russia) & K.-Y. LIM (Korea) 
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Zootaxa 1198: 1-20 (11 May 2006)  15 references                                           Accepted: 14 Mar. 2006
Nomenclator generum et familiarum Chilopodorum II: A list of the genus- and family-group names in the Class Chilopoda from 1958 through 2005
R.M. SHELLEY (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1155: 35-40 (20 Mar. 2006) 16 references                                               Accepted: 7 Feb. 2006
Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on scolopendrid centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)
J.G.E. LEWIS (UK), A. MINELLI (Italy) & R.M. SHELLEY (USA)
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Zootaxa 1106: 45-68 (10 Jan. 2006) 14 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 15 Nov. 2005
New species and new records of the genus Ribautia Brölemann, 1909 (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae) from South America
L.A. PEREIRA (Argentina), M. ULIANA (Italy) & A. MINELLI (Italy)

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2005

Zootaxa 1097: 1-60 (16 Dec. 2005) 30 plates; 37 references                              Accepted: 8 Sept. 2005
New giant pill-millipede species from the littoral forest of Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zoosphaerium)
T. WESENER (Germany) & P. SIERWALD (USA)
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Zootaxa 1094: 25-40 (13 Dec. 2005) 5 plates; 39 references                               Accepted: 28 Nov. 2005
Ectonocryptoides quadrimeropus, a new centipede genus and species from Jalisco, Mexico; proposal of Ectonocryptopinae, analysis of subfamilial relationships, and a key to subfamilies and genera of the Scolopocryptopidae (Scolopendromorpha)
R. M. SHELLEY & R. MERCURIO (USA)
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Zootaxa 1080: 17-31 (15 Nov. 2005) 4 plates;  9 references                              Accepted: 30 Sept. 2005
Six new species of Pseudotremia from caves of the Tennessee Cumberland Plateau (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Cleidogonidae)
J. J. LEWIS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1064: 39-49 (14 Oct. 2005) 5 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 19 Sept. 2005
A new genus of millipede (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania with a pseudo-articulated gonopod telopodite
ROBERT MESIBOV (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1034: 21-42 (11 Aug. 2005) 17 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 28 Jun. 2005
A new genus of burrowing and cave-dwelling millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia
R. MESIBOV (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1017: 25-32 (12 Jul. 2005) 4 plates, 12 references                               Accepted: 23 Jun. 2005
A new milliped of the genus Stenozonium Shelley 1998 from Washington State, U. S. A.: first record of the genus and family from North of the Columbia River (Polyzoniida: Polyzoniidae)
R.M. SHELLEY & W.A. SHEAR (USA)
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Zootaxa 1005: 1-64 (10 Jun. 2005) 84 references                                     Accepted: 7 May 2005
The millipede type specimens in the Collections of the Field Museum of Natural History (Arthropoda: Diplopoda)
P. SIERWALD, J.E. BOND & G.T. GURDA (USA)
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Zootaxa 961: 1-20 (29 Apr. 2005) 9 plates; 15 references                                 Accepted: 14 Apr. 2005
Morphology and relationships of a new species of Henicops (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New South Wales and Queensland, Australia
G.D. EDGECOMBE & L.M. HOLLINGTON (Australia
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Zootaxa 796: 1-12 (5 Jan. 2005) 4 plates, 34 references                                 Accepted: 9 Dec. 2004
On the identity of some poorly known lithobiid centipedes described by Karl Verhoeff (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha)
P. STOEV (Bulgaria)
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Zootaxa 794: 1-12 (5 Jan. 2005) 7 plates, 11 references                           Accepted: 16 Dec. 2004
A new geophilid centipede of the genus Eurytion Attems, 1903 from north-western Argentina (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae)
L.A. PEREIRA (Argentina)
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2004

Zootaxa 686: 1-11 (14 October 2004) 5 plates; 16 references                      Accepted: 30 Sept. 2004
Remylamyctes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha), a henicopid centipede from Madagascar and Réunion
G.D. EDGECOMBE
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 635: 1-12 (10 September 2004) 31 references                                      Accepted: 23 Aug. 2004
An annotated catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the collection of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha)
P. STOEV (Bulgaria) & J.-J. GEOFFROY (France)

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Zootaxa 609: 1-7 (18 Aug. 2004) 1 plate; 13 references                                 Accepted: 10 Aug. 2004
The milliped family Anthroleucosomatidae new to North America: Leschius mcallisteri, n. gen., n. sp. (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Anthroleucosomatoidea)
W.A. SHEAR & W.P. LEONARD
(USA)

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Zootaxa 586: 1-10 (30 July 2004) 22 references                                                 Accepted: 16 July 2004
The types of Chilopoda and Diplopoda (Myriapoda) housed at the Museo de La Plata, Argentina
L.A. PEREIRA, C. ITUARTE & M.P. TASSARA
(Argentina)

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Zootaxa 558: 1-19 (7 July 2004)  10 plates; 6 references                                  Accepted:19 June 2004
A new genus and four new species of millipedes from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae), with notes on male leg setae in some Tasmanian dalodesmids
R. MESIBOV
(Auatralia)

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Zootaxa 480: 1-27 (31 March 2004) 12 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 22 March 2004
A new genus of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia with a mosaic distribution
R. MESIBOV (Australia)

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Zootaxa 475: 1-8 (29 March 2004) 4 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 18 March 2004
Rediscovery and redescription of the centipede Paracryptops inexpectus Chamberlin, 1914, with an account of the genus (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae: Cryptopinae)
A. CHAGAS JUNIOR (Brazil) & R.M. SHELLEY (USA)

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Zootaxa 451: 1-16 (4 March 2004) 5 plates; 20 references            Accepted: 25 February 2004
A new species of Paralamyctes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New Zealand
G.D. EDGECOMBE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 441: 1-8 (25 February 2004) 3 plates; 9 references               Accepted: 17 February 2004
The first troglomorphic species of the millipede genus Paracortina Wang & Zhang, 1993 from south Yunnan, China (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Paracortinidae)
P. STOEV (Bulgaria)

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Zootaxa 419: 1-8 (30 January 2004) 2 plates; 19 references                  Accepted: 26 January 2004
The first indigenous species of the millipede genus Eurygyrus C.L. Koch, 1847 from the European mainland, with remarks on E. nicarius (Verhoeff, 1901) and E. euboeus (Verhoeff, 1901), and a key to the species of the genus (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae)
P. STOEV (Bulgaria) & H. ENGHOFF (Denmark)

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2003 (16 papers, 366 pages)

Zootaxa 379: 1-20 (8 December 2003) 3 plates; 44 references           Accepted: 2 December 2003
The centipede genus Newportia Gervais, 1847, in Mexico: description of a new troglomorphic species; redescription of N. sabina Chamberlin, 1942; revival of N. azteca Humbert & Saussure, 1869; and a summary of the fauna (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopocryptopidae: Newportiinae)
A. CHAGAS JUNIOR (Brazil) & R.M. SHELLEY (USA)

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Zootaxa 368: 1-32 (25 November 2003) 13 plates; 3 references             Accepted: 19 November 2003
Two new and unusual genera of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) from Tasmania, Australia
R. MESIBOV (Australia)

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Zootaxa 365: 1-20 (21 November 2003) 5 plates; 52 references                Accepted: 13 November 2003
Occurrence of the milliped Sinocallipus simplipodicus Zhang, 1993 in Laos, with reviews of the Southeast Asian and global callipodidan faunas, and remarks on the phylogenetic position of the order (Callipodida: Sinocallipodidea: Sinocallipodidae)
W.A. SHEAR, R.M. SHELLEY  & H. HEATWOLE  (USA)

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Zootaxa 321: 1-36 (7 October 2003) 11 plates; 42 references              Accepted: 23 September 2003
The milliped family Trichopetalidae, Part 1: Introduction and Genera Trigenotyla Causey, Nannopetalum n. gen., and Causeyella n. gen. (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida, Cleidogonoidea)
W.A. SHEAR  (USA)

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Zootaxa 308: 1-108 (26 September 2003) 2 plates; 179 references      Accepted: 12 September 2003
Rhinocricidae Systematics II: A species catalog of the Rhinocricidae (Diplopoda: Spirobolida) with synonymies
P.E. MAREK, J.E. BOND  & P. SIERWALD (USA)
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Zootaxa 296: 1-12 (16 September 2003) 4 plates, 21 references          Accepted: 5 September 2003
A new polydesmid milliped genus and two new species from Oregon and Washington, U. S. A., with a review of Bidentogon Buckett and Gardner, 1968, and a summary of the family in Western North America (Polydesmida: Polydesmidae)
R.M. SHELLEY (USA)

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Zootaxa 292: 1-8 (9 September 2003) 3 plates; 9 references                     Accepted: 1 September 2003
Rhinocricidae Systematics I: The taxonomic placement of the species of Zipyge Chamberlin, 1925 and Oxypygides Chamberlin, 1922 (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Rhinocricidae: Oxypyginae)
J.E. BOND & P.E. MAREK (USA)
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Zootaxa 272: 1-26 (22 August 2003) 8 plates, 26 references                        Accepted: 7 August 2003
Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of genus Balkanopetalum Verhoeff, 1926 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae)
P.  STOEV (Bulgaria) & H. ENGHOFF (Denmark)

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Zootaxa 243: 1-11 (21 July 2003) 3 plates; 16 references                               Accepted: 9 July 2003
Microlympiidae, a new milliped family from North America, and Microlympia echina, new genus and species (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Brannerioidea)
W.A. SHEAR & W.P. LEONARD  (USA)
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Zootaxa 237: 1-11  (9 July 2003) 2 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 26 June 2003
The Neotropical taxa of the genus Dinocryptops Crabill, 1953 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)
A. CHAGAS JR. (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 233: 1-7 (4 July 2003) 1 plate; 8 references                              Accepted: 25 June 2003
Branneria bonoculus, n. sp., a second species in the North American milliped family Branneriidae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Brannerioidea)
W.A. SHEAR (USA)
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Zootaxa 204: 1-15 (30 May 2003)  5 plates; 23 references                              Accepted: 21 May 2003
A new species of the Gondwanan centipede Anopsobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New South Wales, Australia
G. D. EDGECOMBE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 193: 1-12 (8 May 2003) 5 plates, 15 references                             Accepted: 1 May 2003
A new species of Paralamyctes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Henicopidae) from southern Chile
G.D. EDGECOMBE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 180: 1-8 (9 April 2003) 2 plates, 21 references                          Accepted: 31 March 2003
Redescription of the milliped Amphelictogon subterraneus bahamiensis Chamberlin, 1918, with an assessment of the family Chelodesmidae in the Bahamas (Polydesmida: Leptodesmidea)
R.M. SHELLEY (USA)

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Zootaxa 170: 1-7 (31 March 2003) 2 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 11 March 2003
A new milliped of the genus Abacion Rafinesque, 1820 from Arkansas, U. S. A. (Callipodida: Abacionidae)
R. M. SHELLEY, C. T. McALLISTER & J. L. HOLLIS (USA)

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Zootaxa 152: 1-23 (5 March 2003)  8 plates; 71  references              Accepted: 23 February 2003
A new blind Lamyctes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from Tasmania with an analysis of molecular sequence data for the Lamyctes-Henicops Group
G. D. EDGECOMBE (Australia) & G. GIRIBET
(USA)
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2002 (2 papers, 18 pages)

Zootaxa 115: 1-6 (12 December 2002)  2 plates; 11 references          Accepted: 25 November 2002
Redescription of the milliped Myrmecodesmus mundus (Chamberlin) (Polydesmida: Pyrgodesmidae)
R. M. SHELLEY (USA)

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Zootaxa 86: 1-12 (21 October 2002)  2 plates; 20 references                Accepted: 26 September 2002
A new mecistocephalid centipede from Ryukyu Islands and a revisitation of ‘Taiwanella’ (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Mecistocephalidae)
L. BONATO, D. FODDAI  & A. MINELLI (Italy)
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