Biology:Zephronia

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Zephronia is a genus of giant pill millipedes in the family Zephroniidae[1] with more than 50 described species[2] native to Myanmar, India, Vietnam, Thailand,[3] Cambodia, and Laos.[2]

Zephronia siamemsis
Zephronia viridisoma

Taxonomy

It was published by George Robert Gray in 1832. The type species is Zephronia ovalis Gray, 1832.[4][5]

Species

Species within this genus include:[1][6][3]

  • Zephronia alticola Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia anthracina Pocock, 1895
  • Zephronia butleri Olliff, 1882
  • Zephronia clivicola Pocock, 1890
  • Zephronia comotti Pocock, 1890
  • Zephronia dawydoffi Attems, 1953
  • Zephronia debilis Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia densipora Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia disparipora Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia dollfusi Pocock, 1895
  • Zephronia doriae Pocock, 1890
  • Zephronia enghoffi Srisonchai, Sutcharit & Likhitrakarn, 2021
  • Zephronia feae Pocock, 1890
  • Zephronia floweri Hirst, 1907
  • Zephronia formosa Pocock, 1890
  • Zephronia gestri Pocock, 1890
  • Zephronia glaberrima Attems, 1898
  • Zephronia golovatchi Srisonchai, Sutcharit & Likhitrakarn, 2021
  • Zephronia hirsti Jeekel, 2001
  • Zephronia hirta Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia hysophila Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia impunctata Pocock, 1895
  • Zephronia inferior Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia juvenis Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia konkakinhensis Semenyuk, Golovatch & Wesener, 2018
  • Zephronia lannaensis Likhitrakarn & Golovatch, 2021
  • Zephronia laotica Wesener, 2019
  • Zephronia lignivora Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia maculata (Butler, 1874)
  • Zephronia montana Karsch, 1881
  • Zephronia montis Semenyuk, Golovatch & Wesener, 2018
  • Zephronia nepalensis Wesener, 2015
  • Zephronia nigrinota Butler, 1872
  • Zephronia ovalis Gray, 1832
  • Zephronia panhai Srisonchai, Sutcharit & Likhitrakarn, 2021
  • Zephronia pellita Attems, 1935
  • Zephronia phrain Likhitrakarn & Golovatch, 2021
  • Zephronia profuga Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia ridleyi Hirst, 1907
  • Zephronia semilaevis Pocock, 1890
  • Zephronia siamensis Hirst, 1907
  • Zephronia specularis Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia tigrina Butler, 1872
  • Zephronia tigrinoides Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia tumida Butler, 1882
  • Zephronia viridescens Attems, 1936
  • Zephronia viridisoma Rosenmejer & Wesener, 2021

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Zephronia Gray, 1832. (n.d.-b). BioLib. Retrieved January 26, 2025, from https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id897751/
  2. 2.0 2.1 Srisonchai, R., Likhitrakarn, N., Sutcharit, C., & Wesener, T. (2024). Integrative taxonomy reveals two new giant pill-millipedes of the genus Zephronia Gray, 1832 from eastern Thailand (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). ZooKeys, 1212, 29.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Srisonchai, Ruttapon; Sutcharit, Chirasak; Likhitrakarn, Natdanai (29 October 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 (1067): 19–56. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1067.72369. PMID 34759718. 
  4. Zephronia Gray, 1832. (n.d.). MilliBase. Retrieved January 26, 2025, from https://millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892933
  5. Zephronia Gray, 1832. (n.d.-c). Catalogue of Life. Retrieved January 26, 2025, from https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7Q6XV
  6. Likhitrakarn, Natdanai; Golovatch, Sergei I.; Srisonchai, Ruttapon; Sutcharit, Chirasak (2021-03-18). "Two New Species of the Giant Pill-Millipede Genus Zephronia Gray, 1832 from Thailand (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Zephroniidae)" (in en). Tropical Natural History 21 (1): 12–26. ISSN 2586-9892. https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tnh/article/view/247730. 

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