Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-t5tsf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-19T06:41:07.981Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

THE SPECIES AND NUMBER OF SYMBIOTIC PENICILLATE MILLIPEDS IN ARBOREAL ANT NESTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Kiyoshi Ishii  and
Hiroto Yamaoka
Kiyoshi Ishii
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, 880 Mibu, Tochigi, 321–02 Japan
Hiroto Yamaoka
Affiliation:
Narashino Senior High School of Chiba, 1–2–1 Narashino, Chiba, 274 Japan
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

No reports have been published about symbiotic penicillate millipeds living in arboreal ant nests, though Donisthorpe (1927) reported those in edaphic ant nests. Therefore, we tried to determine the species and numbers of symbiotic penicillate millipeds in arboreal ant nests.

An investigation of the symbiotic penicillate millipeds was conducted in both the maritime forest (Daphniphyllum teijsmannii Zoll., Pinus thunbergii Parl.) and the mountain forest (Machilus thunbergii Sieb. et Zucc., Castanopsis cuspidata Schottky var. sieboldii Nakai) on Miyakejima Island (about N 34°05′, E 139°30′) in the Pacific Ocean, 28 March 1980. As a result, we found symbiotic penicillate millipeds of the family Polyxenidae only in the maritime forest.

Type
Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 114 , Issue 8 , August 1982 , pp. 767 - 768
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1982

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 1927. The Guests of British Ants: Their Habits and Life-histories. George Routledge. 244 pp.Google Scholar