Polyxenus lagurus

{{Short description|Species of millipede}}

{{Redirect-distinguish-text|Bristly millipede|the bristle millipedes, order Polyxenida}}

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| image = The strangest millipede ever ... (8053641856).jpg

| genus = Polyxenus

| species = lagurus

| authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)

| synonyms = Scolopendra lagura Linnaeus, 1758

| synonyms_ref =  {{cite journal |author=M. Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin & J.-J. Geoffroy |year=2003 |title=A revised comprehensive checklist, relational database, and taxonomic system of reference for the bristly millipedes of the world |journal=African Invertebrates |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=89–101}}

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Polyxenus lagurus, known as the bristly millipede is a species of millipede found in many areas of Europe and North America.{{cite journal|last=Hoffman |first=R. L. |title=Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America |journal=Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications |year=1999 |volume=8 |pages=1–553}}p. 13{{cite book|author=William Shear |chapter=Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844 |title=Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness|year=2011|journal=Zootaxa |volume=3148 |isbn=978-1-86977-850-7|pages=159–164|chapter-url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p164.pdf|editor=Zhang, Z.-Q.}} It is covered with detachable bristles that have the ability to entangle ants and spiders that attack the animal.{{cite journal | url=http://jeb.biologists.org/content/209/13/2486.full | title=Water vapour absorption in the penicillate millipede Polyxenus lagurus (Diplopoda: Penicillata: Polyxenida): microcalorimetric analysis of uptake kinetics | author=Jonathan C. Wright & Peter Westh | journal=Journal of Experimental Biology | year=2006 | volume=209 | issue=13 |pages=2486–2494 |doi=10.1242/jeb.02280| pmid=16788032 | doi-access=free | url-access=subscription }}