The study is published in the journal ZooKeys. "It's a kind of mythical creature in the millipede world," said Dr Paul Marek, an entomologist from the University of Arizona and the lead author of ...

Xystodesmus fasciatus, with up to 19 segments, was discovered in a Japanese cedar forest on the Satsuma peninsula and is named for its “vividly banded” body made up of alternating “pale-greyish” and ...

The newly identified millipedes were found in highly localized regions of the Ryukyu Archipelago, such as a limestone hill or a small patch of forest, according to a peer-reviewed study published ...