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Weixin Liu

Myriapoda

Tel: +49 228 9122-425

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

Mail: da2000wei [at] 163.com

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Field of work

Liu Weixin is a PhD student in South China Agricultural University. She will spent a research year at the Museum Koenig (ZFMK) in Bonn.

Research interests

Liu is very interested in the taxonomy of millipedes, with a special focus on the cave fauna in China. She has visited over 200 caves in the Chinese provinces or regions of Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi from 2011-2015. Liu already described more than 15 previously unknown species of millipedes.

Projects

2016

Eutrichodesmus from Laos und Indien

In the course of this project, different species of the dwarf polydesmid milliepde genus Eutrichodesmus will be described. The new sepcies are from India and Laos, and contain epigean species, as well as species only found in caves, the latter with unique adaptations to a life in permanent darkness. this work will be conducted in the course of a 6-week intense lab class in our international OEP Master programme.

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Myriapoda

Project lead:

Dr. Thomas Wesener

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

Evolution of Chinese cave millipedes

Southern Chinca is especially rich in caves. These caves are inhabited by a unique, still little-known fauna, especially diverse are different groups of millipedes. These cave millipedes, all show similar adaptation to the life inside a cave and look vastly different from their close relatives which live in the forests on the surface. Currently, a joint team of researchers from Russia, China and Germany studies general adaptations of millipedes to the life inside caves using comparative morphology.

Unit:

Myriapoda

Project lead:

Dr. Thomas Wesener

Publications

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2017

Liu W., Golovatch S., Wesener T. (2017): Four new species of the millipede genus Eutrichodesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Laos, including two with reduced ozopores (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae). ZooKeys 660: 43-65.

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Liu W., Golovatch S., Wesener T., Tian M. (2017): Convergent Evolution of Unique Morphological Adaptations to a Subterranean Environment in Cave Millipedes (Diplopoda). PLoS ONE 12(2): 1-20.

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Liu, W., Wesener, T., Golovatch, S., Tian, M. (2017): Contributions to the millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979 from China, with four new species and first results on phylogeny based on DNA-barcoding (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae). Zootaxa 4243 (3): 455–482.

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Liu, W., Rühr, P., Wesener, T. (2017): A look with μCT technology into a treasure trove of fossils: The first two fossils of the millipede order Siphoniulida discovered in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Myriapoda, Diplopoda). Cretaceous Research 74: 100-108.

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2016

Liu WX, Golovatch SI, Tian MY (2016) Six new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, mostly from caves in China (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 577: 1–24. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.577.7825

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CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DATA

Family name: LIU

Given name: WEIXIN

Nationality: Chinese

E-mail: da2000wei [at] 163.com

EDUCATION

PhD. Candidate in Entomology, from 2014–

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany (Tutor: Dr. Thomas Wesener)

South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China (Specialized in Zoology; Tutors: Profs. Mingyi TIAN, Sergei Golovatch)

Master in Entomology, 2010–2013

South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Bachelor in Plant protection, 2006–2010

Hebei Normal University of Science & Technology, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.

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2016

Eutrichodesmus from Laos und Indien

Evolution of Chinese cave millipedes

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