Lophoproctidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Classis: Diplopoda
Subclassis: Penicillata
Ordo: Polyxenida
Superfamilia: Polyxenoidea
Familia: Lophoproctidae
Genera: Alloproctinus – Alloproctoides – Alloproctus – Ancistroxenus – Lophoproctinus – Lophoproctus – Lophoturus – Plesioproctus
Name

Lophoproctidae Silvestri, 1897

References

Template:Silvestri, 1897

Huynh, C. & Veenstra, A.A. 2018. Two new Lophoturus species (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, Lophoproctidae) from Queensland, Australia. Pp 133–154 In: Stoev, P. & Edgecombe, G.D. (eds.) 2018. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Myriapodology, Krabi, Thailand. ZooKeys 741: 1–269. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.741.21814. Reference page.

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

Sierwald, P. "Lophoproctidae Silvestri, 1897. In: Sierwald, P. MilliBase (2017)". MilliBase, 12th January 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
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.
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.
Melic, Antonio (2015). "Introducción a la Clase Diplopoda". Ibero Diversidad Entomológica @ccesible (Revista IDE@-SEA). 23: 1–18.
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.