''Sphaeropoeus'' is a genus of
giant pill millipedes belonging to the family
Zephroniidae
Zephroniidae (sometimes misspelled "Zephronidae") is a family of giant pill millipedes in the taxonomic order Sphaerotheriida. They occur in southeast Asia from the Himalayas and China south and east to Sulawesi and to Australia, and also inhab ...
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Catalogue of life
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Distribution
Species of this genus are present in North India
North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India. The dominant geographical features of North India are the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas, which demarcate the region from the Tibetan Plateau and Central ...
, Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
, Malayan Peninsula, Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...
, Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
and Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...
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Species
* '' Sphaeropoeus exstinctus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus extinctus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus gisleni''
* '' Sphaeropoeus glabrus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus hercules''
* '' Sphaeropoeus inermis''
* '' Sphaeropoeus lugubris''
* '' Sphaeropoeus maculatus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus magnus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus malaccanus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus modiglianii''
* '' Sphaeropoeus montanus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus musicus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus pellitus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus politus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus punctulatissimus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus speciosus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus stollii''
* '' Sphaeropoeus sumatrensis''
* '' Sphaeropoeus tatusiaeformis''
* '' Sphaeropoeus tigratus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus tuberculosus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus unciger''
* '' Sphaeropoeus variegatus''
* '' Sphaeropoeus velutinus''
References
Millipedes of Asia
Sphaerotheriida
Zephroniidae
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