#myriapods
She went on to become an expert in myriapods, mites, and ticks, restoring hundreds of thousands of specimens, classifying thousands, and co-identifying 40 type specimens. She now has a mite species named for her: Pygmephorus lutterloughae.
Read her story here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_...
Sophie Lutterlough - Wikipedia
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February 8, 2026 at 4:25 AM
These split up gradually confined insects to their current definition, while for other terrestrial arthropods the concepts of myriapods & chelicerates gradually took shape.
Btw fun fact, the first mention of chelicerata in 1901 is in a book with "scolopender" in its title (because why not🤷‍♀️).

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February 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
A thing I always found fascinating: look at the Aptera group. Acarus, Araneus, Scorpio: this is the start of classifying arachnids back in 1758, at a time when the word "arachnida" didn't exist yet. Up to 1801, Arachnids were treated as "wingless insects" alongside myriapods & crustaceans.

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Insects as initially described by Linnaeus in 1758.
Many key species already, and some surprises (Blatta and Gryllus in Coleoptera !).
How have I lived before knowing I can consult any masterbook of the History of Science this easily thanks to scanned books by libraries around the world? 📖
February 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Word of the Hour: Iulus - A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round consisting of numerous smooth equal segments each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
February 4, 2026 at 8:16 AM
YOOO I LOVE THE COLORS!! He’s so damn cool you’re making me wanna design more myriapods
January 27, 2026 at 11:19 PM
First let's see what isn't a spider, it's investigation time! Mentioning 8 legs is a good start, but it's far from enough!

#Cheliceratime
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January 19, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Cannot believe I forgot about my single sighting of a Pauropod, in North Carolina a few years ago 🥹

Pauropods are minuscule Myriapods (eg, millipedes, centipedes, etc), silly little soil guys. This one is long, others are really short and stubby. I love them, I need more
January 17, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Palacios, Capdevilla & Albalat identified 48 putative metallothioneins from 30 myriapod species; differences between diplopod and chilopod MTs likely reflect distinct metal uptake, retention, and excretion strategies associated with their ecology.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf248

#genome #evolution
January 14, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Crawling In we have Panarthropoda part 3 Family Myriapoda. Aka The Millipedes and Centipedes. Strong, vicious and fast Predators with venom and Poison to boot
#SonicThehedgehog #SonicOcs #Sonic_Elements_Species_Safari #AJTheElementalgod #Panarthropoda #Myriapoda #Myriapods
January 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM
that's my wife don't be fucking rude
January 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
The colloquial term "bugs" is broader, including myriapods (e.g. centipedes and millipedes) and chelicerates (spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, etc). And the arthropods are broader still.
January 10, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Mapping myriapods of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: @mfnberlin.bsky.social - over 15,000 myriapod records reveal historical areas of collecting activity from Germany, the Balkans and the Alps to Africa, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.
See the full study here: doi.org/10.3897/zse....
Mapping the collection: visualising locality data for myriapods in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Locality data for the Myriapoda (Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Pauropoda, and Symphyla) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin were mapped with the principal aim of highlighting areas of historical col...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:26 AM
You can sort arthropods into four main categories: chelicerates, crustaceans, hexapods, and myriapods. (All are magnificent.)
January 7, 2026 at 8:22 PM
We’re in the second-to-last week of our ID-a-thon, and we’re sorting arthropods! Here’s a quick guide to get you started: tr.ee/identifyweek4 🦀🦋🕷️
January 7, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Mapping the collection: visualising locality data for myriapods in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Jason A. Dunlop & Anja Friederichs
@zse.pensoft.net
zse.pensoft.net/article/1670...
Mapping the collection: visualising locality data for myriapods in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Locality data for the Myriapoda (Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Pauropoda, and Symphyla) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin were mapped with the principal aim of highlighting areas of historical col...
zse.pensoft.net
January 7, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Dunlop JA, Friederichs A (2026) Mapping the #collection: visualising locality data for myriapods in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin @zse.pensoft.net
🔓 doi.org/10.3897/zse.... 🧪🌏 #myriapoda
Mapping the collection: visualising locality data for myriapods in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Locality data for the Myriapoda (Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Pauropoda, and Symphyla) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin were mapped with the principal aim of highlighting areas of historical col...
zse.pensoft.net
January 7, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Starting 2026 off right after My Report on @torturingbugshub on Instagram with over 675k followers was finally addressed! EntoWin Wildlife Win!

#wildlife #entomology #nature #biology #science #animalwelfare #animals #bugs #insects #arthropods #arachnids #myriapods
January 7, 2026 at 12:09 AM
i had to specify pancrustacea as a whole bc even if we're just talking terrestrial stuff I don't wanna exclude amphipods and isopods, sadly myriapods split off too long ago to make the cut because if I wanted to include them I'd have to include literally all animals
January 6, 2026 at 9:46 PM
"Spiders aren't bugs, they're arachnids" annoys me so much because bug just means little creepy-crawly, not insect specifically. Nobody corrects you to say "Roly-polies are crustaceans" or "Centipedes are myriapods." It's anti-spider propaganda.
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 1:34 PM
they're bugs in the sense of minibeast, but not in the scientific classification 👍

stealing wiki's line about it since it phrases it better than i was gonna.
January 6, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Wondering what happened in centipedes' evolutionary history (that didn't happen for centipedes or other myriapods) that made them “oops, all legs!”

Like, they have sensory appendages on their head, but they're unlike the antennae of any other arthropod (including millipedes), they're actually… […]
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January 4, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Millipedes are fine. Centipedes are the menacing myriapods.
December 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I'm back!! Probably my last fully colored big artwork of the year🍊
#bugs #myriapods #myart #art #drawing #didgitalart #artsky #art #artist
December 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
there's a cool looking job opening working on soil myriapods in Germany, but they only want full PhDs. someone go get that and blow the pauropods a kiss for me
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I was trying to find millipedes and centipedes but every time I dug into the dirt I kept excavating FROGS and TOADS. Herpetologists, come get your boy; he's busted. (I did still find myriapods tho)
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM