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Arthrosphaeridae

Wikipedia Abstract

Arthrosphaeridae is a family of giant pill millipedes of the class Diplopoda that are found in Madagascar, the Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka. The largest pill-millipede in the world, Zoosphaerium neptunus (Butler 1872) belongs to this family and is known to swarm at certain times of the year. An introduced population exists on the Usumbara mountains of Tanzania.
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Genus

Arthrosphaera (42)
Microsphaerotherium (2)   (1)
Sphaeromimus (12)   (6)
Zoosphaerium (79)   (10)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0