Taxonavigation

Familia: Zephroniidae
Genera: Bothrobelum – Castanotherium – Castanotheroides – Chinosphaera – Cryxus – Indosphaera – Kophosphaera – Leptoprotopus – Leptotelopus – Prionobelum – Sechelliosoma – Sphaerobelum – Sphaeropoeus – Tigridosphaera – Zephronia
[list of genera after Wesener & VandenSpiegel (in press: table 4)]

Name

Zephroniidae Gray in Jones, 1843

References

• Golovatch, S.I., Thomas Wesener, Jean-Paul Mauriès & Irina I. Semenyuk 2012: On the identities of Cryxus Leach, 1814 and Zephronia Gray, 1832, the oldest generic names in the millipede order Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda). Arthropoda selecta 21(4): 273–294. DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.21.4.01 . Reference page. 

• Wesener, T. 2015: The Giant Pill-Millipedes of Nepal (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). Zootaxa 3964(3): 301–320. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.3.1 . Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

• Wesener, T. 2016. Redescription and phylogenetic analysis of the type species of the giant pill-millipede genus Sphaeropoeus Brandt, 1833 (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). Zootaxa 4184(1): 141–157. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.9 . Reference page. 
• Wesener, T.; VandenSpiegel, D. (in press): A first phylogenetic analysis of giant pill-millipedes (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida), a new model Gondwanan taxon, with special emphasis on island gigantism. Cladistics, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00267.x