Zephronia

Zephronia
Zephronia siamemsis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Sphaerotheriida
Family:	Zephroniidae
Genus:	Zephronia Gray, 1832 [1]
Type species
Zephronia ovalis Gray, 1832 [2]

Zephronia is a genus of giant pill millipedes in the family Zephroniidae ^[3] with more than 50 described species ^[4] native to Myanmar, India, Vietnam, Thailand, ^[5] Cambodia, and Laos. ^[4]

Zephronia siamemsis

Zephronia viridisoma

Taxonomy

It was published by George Robert Gray in 1832. The type species is Zephronia ovalis Gray, 1832. ^{[2] [6]}

Species

Species within this genus include: ^{[3] [7] [5]}

• 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. Gray, G. (1832) The Myriapods (Myriapoda—Mitosata, Fab.). In: Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. (Eds.), The Class Insecta arranged by the Baron Cuvier, 1, pp. 124-–142.
2. Zephronia Gray, 1832. (n.d.). MilliBase. Retrieved January 26, 2025, from https://millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892933
3. Zephronia Gray, 1832. (n.d.-b). BioLib. Retrieved January 26, 2025, from https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id897751/
4. 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.
5. 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 . PMC   8571248 . PMID   34759718 – via Pensoft.
6. Zephronia Gray, 1832. (n.d.-c). Catalogue of Life. Retrieved January 26, 2025, from https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7Q6XV
7. 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)". Tropical Natural History. 21 (1): 12–26. ISSN   2586-9892.