Abacion Explained

Abacion is a genus of crested millipedes in the family Abacionidae. There are about 10 described species in Abacion.

Species

These 10 species belong to the genus Abacion:

• Abacion creolum (Chamberlin, 1942)
• Abacion highlandense (Hoffman, 1950)
• Abacion jonesi (Chamberlin, 1942)
• Abacion lactarium (Say, 1821)
• Abacion magnum (Loomis, 1943)
• Abacion spinosa (Sager, 1856)
• Abacion tesselatum Rafinesque, 1820
• Abacion texense (Loomis, 1937)
• Abacion texensis (Loomis, 1937)
• Abacion wilhelminae Shelley, McAllister & Hollis, 2003

Identification

Abacion are large, dark brown millipedes with six primary dorsel crests between pore crests on body ring 12. ^[1]

Further reading

• Book: Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. 1999. Hoffman . Richard L.. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8. 9781884549120.
• Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review. 2009. Golovatch. Sergei I.. Kime. R. Desmond. Soil Organisms. 81. 565–597. 2018-05-06. 2016-03-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230452/http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/soilorganisms/volume_81_3/24_golovatch.pdf. dead.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1. Balaban 2. Balaban 3. Hennen . 1. John 2. Jane 3. Derek . 6 March 2007 . Family Abacionidae - BugGuide . BugGuide.