Millipedes of Australia

Chordeumatida: Introduction

Although only first reported from Australia in the mid-1980s (Golovatch 1986), Chordeumatida can be abundant in wet and montane forests. They are usually collected by the Berlese extraction method from leaf litter, and there are hundreds of still-unsorted specimens in Australian museums. For a key to the Tasmanian fauna and details of Tasmanian species, see the Chordeumatida pages on the Tasmanian Multipedes website.

The following classification of Australian chordeumatidans is taken from Shelley (2003):

Order Chordeumatida Pocock, 1894
  Suborder Heterochordeumatidea Shear, 2000
    Family Metopidiotrichidae Attems, 1907
    Family Peterjohnsiidae Mauriès, 1987