Apheloria

Apheloria
Apheloria virginiensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Polydesmida
Family:	Xystodesmidae
Subfamily:	Rhysodesminae
Tribe:	Apheloriini
Genus:	Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921
Synonyms [1]
Leptocircus Attems, 1931

Apheloria is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae, occurring in the central and southeastern United States, and ranging as far north as southern Quebec, Canada. ^{[1] [2]} They are aposematically colored in black and contrasting reds and yellows, and some species in the Appalachian Mountains resemble species of Brachoria where they co-occur, a phenomenon known as Müllerian mimicry. ^[3]

Species

These species belong to the genus Apheloria: ^{[4] [5]}

• Apheloria luminosa Kenyon, 1893
• Apheloria montana (Bollman, 1887)
• Apheloria montezumae (Attems, 1899)
• Apheloria polychroma Marek, Means & Hennen, 2018
• Apheloria tigana Chamberlin, 1939
• Apheloria virginiensis (Drury, 1770)
• Apheloria whiteheadi (Shelley, 1986)

• 
  Apheloria montana, North Carolina
• 
  Apheloria polychroma, Tennessee
• 
  Apheloria tigana, Indiana

References

1. Hoffman, Richard L. 1999. Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications 8, pp. 293-296
2. Marek, Paul; Tanabe, Tsutomu; Sierwald, Petra (2014) A Species Catalog of the Millipede Family Xystodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Archived 2017-01-24 at the Wayback Machine Special Publication 17. Virginia Museum of Natural History. pp. 7-9
3. Marek, P. E.; Bond, J. E. (2009). "A Mullerian mimicry ring in Appalachian millipedes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (24): 9755–9760. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.9755M. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0810408106 . PMC   2700981 . PMID   19487663.
4. "Catalogue of Life, Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921" . Retrieved 2025-01-02.
5. Sierwald, P.; Spelda, J. "Millibase". doi: 10.14284/370 . Retrieved 2021-09-22.