Zephroniidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Sphaerotheriida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Myriapoda Classis: Diplopoda Subclassis: Chilognatha Infraclassis: Pentazonia Superordo: Oniscomorpha Ordo: Sphaerotheriida

Familia: Zephroniidae
Genera: Bothrobelum – Castanotherium – Castanotheroides – Chinosphaera – Cryxus – Indosphaera – Kophosphaera – Leptoprotopus – Leptotelopus – Prionobelum – Sechelliosoma – Sphaerobelum – Sphaeropoeus – Tigridosphaera – Zephronia

[list of genera after Wesener & VandenSpiegel (in press: table 4)]

Name

Zephroniidae Gray in Jones, 1843

Synonyms

• Sphaeropoeidae Brolemann, 1913

References

• Golovatch, S.I., Thomas Wesener, Jean-Paul Mauriès & Irina I. Semenyuk 2012: On the identities of Cryxus Leach, 1814 and Zephronia Gray, 1832, the oldest generic names in the millipede order Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda). Arthropoda selecta 21(4): 273–294. DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.21.4.01 . Reference page. 
• Semenyuk, I.I., Golovatch, S.I. & Wesener, T. 2018. Four new species of giant pill-millipedes from Vietnam (Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). Zootaxa 4459(3): 535–550. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.7 Reference page. 
• Semenyuk, I.I., Golovatch, S.I. & Wesener, T. 2020. Some new or poorly-known Zephroniidae (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida) from Vietnam. Pp 37–60 In Korsós, Z. & Dányi, L. 2020. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary (25‒31 August 2019). ZooKeys, 930: 1–229. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.930.47742 Reference page. 
• Srisonchai, R., Sutcharit, C. & Likhitrakarn, N. 2021. The giant pill-millipede genus Zephronia Gray, 1832 from Thailand, with a redescription of Z. siamensis Hirst, 1907 and descriptions of three new species (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). Zookeys 1067ː 19–56. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1067.72369 Reference page. 
• Wesener, T. 2015: The Giant Pill-Millipedes of Nepal (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). Zootaxa 3964(3): 301–320. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.3.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Wesener, T. 2016. Redescription and phylogenetic analysis of the type species of the giant pill-millipede genus Sphaeropoeus Brandt, 1833 (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). Zootaxa 4184(1): 141–157. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.9. Reference page. 
• Wesener, T.; VandenSpiegel, D. (in press): A first phylogenetic analysis of giant pill-millipedes (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida), a new model Gondwanan taxon, with special emphasis on island gigantism. Cladistics, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00267.x