MilliBase taxon details
Sphaeropoeus Brandt, 1833
892628 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:892628)
accepted
Genus
Sphaeropoeus hercules Brandt, 1833 (type by subsequent designation)
Lissosphaera Attems, 1943 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Pantitherium Attems, 1932 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Sphaeropaeus Brandt, 1833 · unaccepted (lapsus calami)
Tonkinobelum Verhoeff, 1924 · unaccepted
- Species Sphaeropoeus bidoupensis Semenyuk, Golovatch & Wesener, 2020
- Species Sphaeropoeus extinctus Silvestri, 1895
- Species Sphaeropoeus gisleni (Verhoeff, 1939)
- Species Sphaeropoeus glabrus (Attems, 1943)
- Species Sphaeropoeus hercules Brandt, 1833
- Species Sphaeropoeus honbaensis Semenyuk, Golovatch & Wesener, 2020
- Species Sphaeropoeus lugubris (Attems, 1932)
- Species Sphaeropoeus maculatus (Verhoeff, 1924)
- Species Sphaeropoeus magnus Chamberlin, 1921
- Species Sphaeropoeus malaccanus Verhoeff, 1924
- Species Sphaeropoeus manca (Attems, 1936)
- Species Sphaeropoeus modiglianii Silvestri, 1895
- Species Sphaeropoeus pellitus (Attems, 1943)
- Species Sphaeropoeus politus (Attems, 1935)
- Species Sphaeropoeus punctulatissimus Silvestri, 1897
- Species Sphaeropoeus speciosus (Attems, 1943)
- Species Sphaeropoeus stollii Pocock, 1895
- Species Sphaeropoeus sumatrensis (Chamberlin, 1945)
- Species Sphaeropoeus tatusiaeformis Daday, 1889
- Species Sphaeropoeus tigratus Silvestri, 1897
- Species Sphaeropoeus tuberculosus Karsch, 1881
- Species Sphaeropoeus unciger (Attems, 1943)
- Species Sphaeropoeus variegatus Pocock, 1895
- Species Sphaeropoeus velutinus Carl, 1906
- Species Sphaeropoeus banksiana (Butler, 1873) accepted as Sphaeropoeus hercules Brandt, 1833 (invalid combination)
- Species Sphaeropoeus banksianus Butler, 1873 accepted as Sphaeropoeus hercules Brandt, 1833
- Species Sphaeropoeus bicollis Karsch, 1881 accepted as Castanotherium glabratum (Newport, 1844)
- Species Sphaeropoeus bimaculatus Pocock, 1895 accepted as Tigridosphaera bimaculatus (Pocock, 1895) accepted as Tigridosphaera bimaculata (Pocock, 1895)
- Species Sphaeropoeus brandtii Humbert, 1865 accepted as Arthrosphaera brandtii (Humbert, 1865)
- Species Sphaeropoeus cinctus Carl, 1906 accepted as Castanotherium cinctum (Carl, 1906)
- Species Sphaeropoeus evansi Sinclair, 1901 accepted as Tigridosphaera evansi (Sinclair, 1901)
- Species Sphaeropoeus falcicornis Tömösváry, 1885 accepted as Castanotherium falcicorne (Tömösvary, 1885)
- Species Sphaeropoeus gladiator Pocock, 1894 accepted as Leptoprotopus gladiator (Pocock, 1894)
- Species Sphaeropoeus globusmagicus Jeekel, 1951 accepted as Tigridosphaera globusmagicus (Jeekel, 1951)
- Species Sphaeropoeus granulatus Tömösváry, 1885 accepted as Castanotherium granulatum (Tömösvary, 1885)
- Species Sphaeropoeus inermis Humbert, 1865 accepted as Arthrosphaera inermis (Humbert, 1865)
- Species Sphaeropoeus insignis Brandt, 1833 accepted as Castanotherium insigne (Brandt, 1833)
- Species Sphaeropoeus lamprongsis Chamberlin, 1945 accepted as Castanotherium lamprongse (Chamberlin, 1945)
- Species Sphaeropoeus montana (Karsch, 1881) accepted as Sphaeropoeus montanus Karsch, 1881 accepted as Zephronia montana Karsch, 1881
- Species Sphaeropoeus montanus Karsch, 1881 accepted as Zephronia montana Karsch, 1881
- Species Sphaeropoeus musicus De Saussure & Zehntner, 1897 accepted as Sphaeromimus musicus (De Saussure & Zehntner, 1897)
- Species Sphaeropoeus simplex Carl, 1909 accepted as Castanotherium simplex (Carl, 1909)
- Species Sphaeropoeus stolli Pocock, 1895 accepted as Sphaeropoeus stollii Pocock, 1895 (misprint)
- Species Sphaeropoeus sulcatus (Butler, 1872) accepted as Zephronia sulcatula Butler, 1872 accepted as Bothrobelum sulcatulum (Butler, 1872)
- Species Sphaeropoeus sulcicollis Karsch, 1881 accepted as Castanotherium sulcicollis (Karsch, 1881)
- Species Sphaeropoeus tricollis Karsch, 1881 accepted as Castanotherium tricollis (Karsch, 1881)
- Species Sphaeropoeus tuberculosa Karsch, 1881 accepted as Sphaeropoeus tuberculosus Karsch, 1881
- Species Sphaeropoeus volzi Carl, 1906 accepted as Castanotherium volzi (Carl, 1906)
- Species Sphaeropoeus zonatus Pocock, 1895 accepted as Tigridosphaera zonatus (Pocock, 1895) accepted as Tigridosphaera zonata (Pocock, 1895)
masculine
Brandt, J. F. (1833). Tentaminum quorundam monographicorum Insecta Myriapoda Chilognathi Latreillii spectantium prodromus. Bulletin de la Societé Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 6: 194-209. Moscow, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989137
page(s): 199 [details]
page(s): 199 [details]
Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Sphaeropoeus Brandt, 1833. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892628 on 2025-05-07
original description
Brandt, J. F. (1833). Tentaminum quorundam monographicorum Insecta Myriapoda Chilognathi Latreillii spectantium prodromus. Bulletin de la Societé Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 6: 194-209. Moscow, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989137
page(s): 199 [details]
original description (of Lissosphaera Attems, 1943) Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1943). Neue Sphaerotheriden des Wiener Museums. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 53(2. Teil): 60-73. Wien
page(s): 63 [details]
original description (of Pantitherium Attems, 1932) Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1909). Zur Systematik der Spirostreptoidea. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 34(5): 156-159. Jena, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30144159
page(s): 7 [details]
original description (of Tonkinobelum Verhoeff, 1924) Verhoeff, K. W. (1924). Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 34. Myriapoda: Diplopoda. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 16(5): 1-142. Stockholm.
page(s): 58 [details]
taxonomy source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412. Amsterdam, available online at https://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf
page(s): 28 [details]
additional source Wesener, T. (2016). The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida – An annotated species catalogue with morphological atlas and list of apomorphies. <em>Bonn zoological Bulletin Supplementum.</em> 63: 1-107., available online at https://zoologicalbulletin.de/bzb_volumes/bzm_63/bzm_63.pdf
page(s): 1; note: Catalogue [details]
source of synonymy Jeekel, C. A. W. (1974). The group taxonomy and geography of the Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda). Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 32: 41-52. London
page(s): 46 [details]
redescription Wesener, T. (2016). Redescription and phylogenetic analysis of the type species of the giant pill-millipede genus Sphaeropoeus Brandt, 1833 (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4184(1): 141-157., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.9
page(s): 141; note: redescription and phylogeny [details]
page(s): 199 [details]
original description (of Lissosphaera Attems, 1943) Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1943). Neue Sphaerotheriden des Wiener Museums. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 53(2. Teil): 60-73. Wien
page(s): 63 [details]
original description (of Pantitherium Attems, 1932) Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1909). Zur Systematik der Spirostreptoidea. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 34(5): 156-159. Jena, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30144159
page(s): 7 [details]
original description (of Tonkinobelum Verhoeff, 1924) Verhoeff, K. W. (1924). Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 34. Myriapoda: Diplopoda. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 16(5): 1-142. Stockholm.
page(s): 58 [details]
taxonomy source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412. Amsterdam, available online at https://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf
page(s): 28 [details]
additional source Wesener, T. (2016). The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida – An annotated species catalogue with morphological atlas and list of apomorphies. <em>Bonn zoological Bulletin Supplementum.</em> 63: 1-107., available online at https://zoologicalbulletin.de/bzb_volumes/bzm_63/bzm_63.pdf
page(s): 1; note: Catalogue [details]
source of synonymy Jeekel, C. A. W. (1974). The group taxonomy and geography of the Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda). Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 32: 41-52. London
page(s): 46 [details]
redescription Wesener, T. (2016). Redescription and phylogenetic analysis of the type species of the giant pill-millipede genus Sphaeropoeus Brandt, 1833 (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4184(1): 141-157., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.9
page(s): 141; note: redescription and phylogeny [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
