Tingupidae Explained

Tingupidae is a family of millipedes in the order Chordeumatida.^[1] Adult millipedes in this family have 28 or 30 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last).^{[2] [3] [4]} There are 2 genera and 13 described species in Tingupidae.^{[5] [6]}

Genera

• Blancosoma Shear & Hubbard, 1998
• Tingupa Chamberlin, 1910

Further reading

• Book: Lee . Paul. Harding . P.. 2006. Atlas of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Britain and Ireland. Pensoft. 59.
• Book: Hoffman . Richard L.. 1999. Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History.
• Book: Foddai . Donatella. Dallai . Romano. 1995. Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla. Calderini.
• Book: Capinera . John L.. 2008. Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. 978-1402062421.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Shelley . Rowland M. . Millipedes . 2022-03-10 . ag.tennessee.edu.
2. Shear . William A. . Shelley . Rowland M. . 2007-01-18 . 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) . Zootaxa . 1393 . 1 . 53–59 . 10.11646/zootaxa.1393.1.6 . 1175-5334.
3. Shear . William A. . Hubbard . David A. Jr. . 1998 . Cave millipeds of the United States. IV. A new genus and species from a high altitude cave in Colorado (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Tingupidae) . Myriapodologica . 5 . 8 . 85–94.
4. Shear . William A. . 2009-11-16 . Buotidae, a new family for the minute North American milliped Buotus carolinus (Chamberlin) 1940 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea) . Zootaxa . 2290 . 1 . 41–49 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2290.1.4 . 1175-5334. free .
5. Web site: Tingupidae Family Information. BugGuide.net. 2018-02-23.
6. Web site: MilliBase - Tingupidae Loomis, 1966 . 2022-03-03 . www.millibase.org.