Megaphyllum Verhoeff, 1894

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2017, Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda), European Journal of Taxonomy 346, pp. 1-299 : 117

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.346

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3866934

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scientific name

Megaphyllum Verhoeff, 1894
status

 

Genus Megaphyllum Verhoeff, 1894 View in CoL

Brachyiulus View in CoL auct., non Berlese, 1884.

Chromatoiulus View in CoL auct., non Verhoeff, 1894.

Cerabrachyiulus Verhoeff, 1901 View in CoL .

This large genus is distributed from Central Europe to the Middle East and the Caucasus and is currently under study by Eszter Lazányi and Boyan Vagalinsky. The vast majority of the European species occur in the Balkan Peninsula ( Lazányi et al. 2012).

Lazanyi E., Vagalinski B. & Korsos Z. 2012. The millipede genus Megaphyllum Verhoeff, 1894 in the Balkan Peninsula, with description of new species (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae). Zootaxa 3228: 1 - 47.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Julida

Family

Julidae