Illacme
{{Short description|Genus of millipedes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Female Illacme plenipes (MIL0020) with 618 legs - ZooKeys-241-077-SP-6-left.jpg
| image_caption = A female Illacme plenipes with 618 legs
| taxon = Illacme
| authority = Cook & Loomis, 1928
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = {{linked species list
| Illacme plenipes | Cook & Loomis, 1928
| Illacme tobini | Marek, Shear & Krejca, 2016
| Illacme socal | Lee & Bailey, 2018 }}
}}
Illacme is a genus of millipedes in the family Siphonorhinidae.
It includes three species. Illacme plenipes was first described in 1928 from San Benito County, California, and rediscovered in 2005. In 2016, Illacme tobini was described based on a single male specimen collected in 2006 from Lange Cave, in Sequoia National Park, {{cvt|240|km|mi}} east of the known habitat for I. plenipes.{{sfn|Marek|Krejca|Shear|2016|p=4}}
In 2018, Illacme socal was discovered in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park.{{Cite web |last=Corinne Purtill |date=2023-07-13 |title=Meet the 486-legged creature found in an L.A. area park |url=https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-07-13/new-millipede-species-discovered-in-los-angeles-county |access-date=2023-07-14 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
Illacme are detritovores and break down dead plant matter before eventually returning it to the soil.
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- {{Cite journal |last1=Marek |first1=Paul E. |last2=Krejca |first2=Jean K. |last3=Shear |first3=William A. |date=October 20, 2016 |title=A new species of Illacme Cook & Loomis, 1928 from Sequoia National Park, California, with a world catalog of the Siphonorhinidae (Diplopoda, Siphonophorida) |url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/9681/ |journal=ZooKeys |language=en |issue=626 |pages=1–43 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.626.9681 |pmid=27833431 |pmc=5096369 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2016ZooK..626....1M }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Shelley |first=R. M. |date=December 1, 1996 |title=A description of Siphonophora portoricensis Brandt (Diplopoda: Siphonophorida: Siphonophoridae), with a Catalogue of Ordinal Representatives in the New World |journal=Journal of Natural History |volume=30 |issue=12 |pages=1799–1814 |doi=10.1080/00222939600771051 |bibcode=1996JNatH..30.1799S }}
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Category:Endemic fauna of California
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