Jackson Means

Contact

Dr. Jackson Means
Assistant Curator of Recent Invertebrates
jackson.means@vmnh.virginia.gov

Professional Titles

• Assistant Curator of Recent Invertebrates, Virginia Museum of Natural History
• Adjunct Faculty, Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech
• Myriapodologist, Virginia Museum of Natural History
• Collections Assistant, Virginia Museum of Natural History

Education

• Ph.D. Entomology, Virginia Tech, 2018
• M.Sc. Entomology, Virginia Tech, 2014

Research Interests

• Taxonomy, systematics, and natural history of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda)
• Taxonomy, systematics, and natural history of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae)
• Biodiversity
• Invertebrate community assemblages
• Biogeography
• Endemic and relictual species

Professional Service

• Editor, The Groundwater Isopods of Virginia
• Webmaster, Virginia Natural History Society
• Secretary, Virginia Natural History Society
• Board Member, Virginia Institute for Invertebrates, Ltd.

Selected Publications

• Bouzan RS, Means JC, Ivanov K, Brescovit AD, and Iniesta LFM. 2024. Tupadesmus (Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae) and T. muyrakyta, a new millipede genus and species from the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil, with a checklist of the Chelodesmidae of Pará State. Annales Zoologici Fennici 61(1): 1-14.
• Bouzan RS, Means JC, Ivanov K, Ferreira RL, Brescovit AD, and Iniesta LFM. 2024. Cayenniola albaserrata n. sp., a geographical relict from a Brazilian hotspot of subterranean biodiversity and the first troglobitic Priodesmini (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae: Chelodesminae). Zootaxa 5428(4): 571-588.
• Bouzan RS, Means JC, Ivanov K, Pupin GB, Brescovit AD, and Iniesta LFM. 2023. A case of mass occurrence of Sandalodesmus araujoi (Schubart, 1946) in a municipality of São Paulo, Brazil and description of the heretofore unknown female (Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae). Biota Neotropica 23(3): e20231521.
• Parra-Gómez A, Pérez-Schultheiss J, Means JC,, and Ivanov K. 2023. Two new species of Anaulacodesmus Attems, 1898 (Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from temperate forest fragments in southern Chile. Revista Chilena de Entomología, 49(3): 557- 569.
• Means JC, Bouzan RS, Iniesta LFM, Martínez-Torres D, Vasquez-Valverde LF, Brescovit AD, and Ivanov K. 2023. A review of the previously monotypic tribe Dibolostethini (Chelodesmidae: Chelodesminae) with description of two new species and a summary of the Chelodesmidae of the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot. European Journal of Taxonomy, 885(1): 65-85.
• Iniesta, LFM, Bouzan, R, Means JC, Ivanov K, and Brescovit AD. 2023. Where are they from and where are they going? Detecting areas of endemism, distribution patterns and conservation status of the order Spirostreptida in Brazil (Diplopoda, Juliformia). Biodiversity and Conservation, 32(5): 1-25.
• Bouzan R, Means JC, Ivanov K, Ferreira R, Brescovit AD, and Iniesta LFM. 2022. Worldwide distribution of cave-dwelling Chelodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). International Journal of Speleology, 51(3): 235-248.
• Bouzan R, Means JC, Ivanov K, Almeida TM, Brescovit AD, and Iniesta LFM. 2022. Three new species of the Amazonian millipede genus Leptherpum (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae). Zoologia, 39(2): e22020.
• Hennen DA, Means JC and Marek PE. 2022. A revision of the wilsoni species group in the millipede genus Nannaria Chamberlin, 1918 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae). Zookeys, 1096: 17-118.
• Marek PE, Buzatto BA, Shear WA, Means JC, Black DG, Harvey MS, and Rodriguez J. 2021. The first true millipede–1306 legs long. Scientific Reports, 11(1): 1-8.
• Means JC, Hennen DA, and Marek PE. 2021. A revision of the minor species group in the millipede genus Nannaria Chamberlin, 1918 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae). Zookeys, 1030: 1-180.
• Barrera IEH, Bueno-Villegas J, Means JC, and Cupul-Magaa FG. 2021. Redescription of Rhysodesmus dasypus (Gervais, 1847), the type species of the genus (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Zootaxa, 5040(1): 66-76.
• Means JC, Ivanov K, and Williams B. 2021. The discovery of a second population of the microendemic Apheloria whiteheadi (Shelley, 1986), a state-listed threatened species for Virginia. Banisteria, 55: 9-17.
• Means JC, Hennen DA, Tanabe T, and Marek PE. 2021. Phylogenetic systematics of the millipede family Xystodesmidae. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 5(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixab003.
• Marek PE, Means JC, and Hennen DA. 2018. Apheloria polychroma, a new species of millipede from the Cumberland Mountains (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Zootaxa 4375 (3): 409 – 425. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.3.7.
• Means JC and Marek PE. 2017. Is geography an accurate predictor of evolutionary history in the millipede family Xystodesmidae? PeerJ (10), art. no. e3854. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3854.
• Means JC, Francis EA, Lane AA and Marek PE. 2015. A general methodology for collecting and preserving xystodesmid and other large millipedes for biodiversity research. Biodiversity data journal, (3), art. no. e5665. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5665.