Arthrosphaera

Arthrosphaera
An Arthrosphaera fumosa from India.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Sphaerotheriida
Family:	Arthrosphaeridae
Genus:	Arthrosphaera Pocock, 1895 [1]

Arthrosphaera is a genus of pill millipedes in the family Arthrosphaeridae, found in Africa, Madagascar, the Western Ghats of India, and Sri Lanka. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

References

1. Pocock, R. I. (1895). "LIV.— Descriptions of new genera of Zephroniidae, with brief preliminary diagnoses of some new species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 16 (95): 409–415 [410]. doi:10.1080/00222939508680293.
2. Wesener, Thomas; Schütte, Kai (2010). "Swarming behaviour and mass occurrences in the world's largest giant pill-millipede species, Zoosphaerium neptunus, on Madagascar and its implication for conservation efforts (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida)". Madagascar Conservation & Development. 5 (2): 89–94. doi: 10.4314/mcd.v5i2.63137 .
3. Ashwini, K. M.; Sridhar, K. R. (December 1, 2008). "Distribution of Pill Millipedes (Arthrosphaera) and Associated Soil Fauna in the Western Ghats and West Coast of India". Pedosphere. 18 (6): 749–757. doi:10.1016/S1002-0160(08)60070-3.
4. Zoysa, H. K. S. De; Nguyen, Anh D.; Wickramasinghe, S. (2016-01-11). "Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka". Zootaxa. 4061 (5): 451–482 [454]. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.1.