Xystocheirini is a tribe of

flat-backed millipede Polydesmida (from the Greek language, Greek ''poly'' "many" and ''desmos'' "bond") is the largest order (biology), order of millipedes, with more than 5,000 species, including all the millipedes reported to produce hydrogen cyanide (HCN). This or ...

s in the family

Xystodesmidae Xystodesmidae is a family of millipedes in the suborder Leptodesmidea within the order Polydesmida (the "flat-backed" or "keeled" millipedes). The family Xystodesmidae was created by the American biologist Orator F. Cook in 1895 and named after ...

. There are about 5 genera and more than 40 described species in Xystocheirini.

Genera

These five genera belong to the tribe Xystocheirini: * '' Anombrocheir'' Buckett & Gardner, 1969 * ''

Motyxia ''Motyxia'' is a genus of Hydrogen cyanide, cyanide-producing millipedes (collectively known as Sierra luminous millipedes or motyxias) that are endemic to the southern Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountains, Tehachapi, and Sant ...

'' Chamberlin, 1941 * '' Parcipromus'' Shelley, 1995 * '' Wamokia'' Chamberlin, 1941 * '' Xystocheir'' Cook, 1904

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