Lophoproctidae

Lophoproctidae
Lophoproctus coecus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Polyxenida
Family:	Lophoproctidae Silvestri, 1897

Lophoproctidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyxenida containing approximately 65 species in 6 genera. ^[1]

Description

Lophoproctus coecus from Krasnodar Province, Russia. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Lophoproctids are distinguished by a soft body, bearing bristles at the posterior end of each diplosegment; ^[2] they are blind and generally lack pigmentation. Individuals are small, ranging in size from 1.2 to 4.2 mm. ^[3] Adults have 13 pairs of legs with internal leg buds, ^[4] except for those in one species (Lophoturus madecassus), which have only 11 pairs of legs. ^[5]

Genera

As of 2017, the family contains the following genera: ^[1]

• Alloproctoides Marquet & Condé 1950
• Ancistroxenus Schubart 1947
• Lophoproctinus Silvestri 1948
• Lophoproctus Pocock 1894
• Lophoturus Brölemann 1931
• Plesioproctus Condé 1964

References

1. Sierwald, P. "Lophoproctidae Silvestri, 1897. In: Sierwald, P. MilliBase (2017)". MilliBase, 12th January 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
2. Bueno-Villegas, Julián; Rojas-Fernández, Patricia (1999). "Fauna de Milpiés (Arthropoda: Diplopoda) de una Selva Alta de los Tuxtlas, Ver. México". Acta Zoológica Mexicana. 76: 59–83.
3. Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (1 January 2015). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview" . Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017.
4. Melic, Antonio (2015). "Introducción a la Clase Diplopoda". Ibero Diversidad Entomológica @ccesible (Revista IDE@-SEA). 23: 1–18.
5. Car, Catherine A.; Short, Megan; Huynh, Cuong; Harvey, Mark S. (2013). "The Millipedes of Barrow Island, Western Australia (Diplopoda)" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 83: 209–219.