Milli-PEET: Millipede Collections - Millipedes Made Easy - Tools
& Resources A vast number of the species on our planet remain
undiscovered. Biological specimen collections play a pivotal
role in the discovery and description of new species. Such
collections have maintained identified material of the known
fauna and flora for more than two centuries. Furthermore, at
least a good portion of the unknown flora and fauna can be found
in the unsorted and unidentified backlog of specimen
collections. For many taxonomically neglected groups, such as
the Myriapoda (centipedes, millipedes, pauropods and
symphylans), we do not even know where such useful specimen
collections might be located. In 1972, the 2nd International
Congress of Myriapodology recommended "that myriapodologists
throughout the world…bring together the information needed for a
world-list of collections in this field" (Kraus, 1974). The
following tables represent a catalog of the millipede
collections of the world. The collections data were generated