Fungi growing between cuticular microscutes of millipedes of the family Odontopygidae (order Spirostreptida, A-E and Dorypetalidae (order Callipodida, F). A from Chaleponcus netus Enghoff 2014. B from Prionopetalum kraepelini (Attems 1896). C-D from Chaleponcus nikolajscharffi Enghoff 2014, the arrow in Fig. 4C indicates an opened fungal body. E from C. tintin Enghoff 2014. F from Lusitanipus alternans (Verhoeff 1893). Scale bars: A, B, E, F = 2 μm; C = 1 μm, D = 0.2 μm. After Enghoff (2014, 2016) and Reboleira & Enghoff (2015) modified. 

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... to the order Polydesmida, but subsequently similar structures have been found in many species of the family Odontopygidae, order Spirostreptida) ( Enghoff 2014Enghoff , 2016) as well as one species of Cambalidae (order Spirostreptida) ( Reboleira et al. 2015) and one species of Dorypetalidae (order Callipodida) (Reboleira & Enghoff 2015). Fig. 4 shows a selection of these structures. They always occur along the borders between cuticular microscutes (each of which corresponds to an underlying hypodermis cell, cf. Fusco et al. 2000). Sometimes the circular-ovoid strutures are connected by a band (a hypha) and sometimes appear deflated (Fig. 4E) in a single case some were borne ...

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... (order Callipodida) (Reboleira & Enghoff 2015). Fig. 4 shows a selection of these structures. They always occur along the borders between cuticular microscutes (each of which corresponds to an underlying hypodermis cell, cf. Fusco et al. 2000). Sometimes the circular-ovoid strutures are connected by a band (a hypha) and sometimes appear deflated (Fig. 4E) in a single case some were borne on short stalks (Fig. 4C-D) and one of the stalked micro-spheres appeared to have broken open (Fig. 4C, ...

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... a selection of these structures. They always occur along the borders between cuticular microscutes (each of which corresponds to an underlying hypodermis cell, cf. Fusco et al. 2000). Sometimes the circular-ovoid strutures are connected by a band (a hypha) and sometimes appear deflated (Fig. 4E) in a single case some were borne on short stalks (Fig. 4C-D) and one of the stalked micro-spheres appeared to have broken open (Fig. 4C, ...

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... cuticular microscutes (each of which corresponds to an underlying hypodermis cell, cf. Fusco et al. 2000). Sometimes the circular-ovoid strutures are connected by a band (a hypha) and sometimes appear deflated (Fig. 4E) in a single case some were borne on short stalks (Fig. 4C-D) and one of the stalked micro-spheres appeared to have broken open (Fig. 4C, ...

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... reported from other arthropods, and it is a question whether they are at all of fungal nature. Toledo et al. (2010 : Fig. 1C) showed a structure which they identified as a germ tube of Beauveria bassiana (Bals. -Criv.) Vuill. penetrating through a pore of the wax gland of a hemipteran insect -this structure looks quite like the one shown here on Fig. 4C-D. So far this is the only "match" we have been able to find and the fungal nature of the "intercalary cuticular micro-scutes" in millipedes remains unproven. ...