Lophoproctidae

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
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

• Silvestri, F. 1897. Viaggio del Dott. Alfredo Borelli nel Chaco boliviano e nella Repubblica Argentina. IV. Chilopodi e Diplopodi. Bollettino del musei di zoologia e di anatomia comparata della Reale Università di Torino 12 (283): 1–11. BHL Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Huynh, C. & Veenstra, A.A. 2020. Three new species of penicillate millipedes from the Con Dao Islands of southeast Vietnam (Diplopoda, Lophoproctidae and Polyxenidae). Zootaxa 4759(1): 1–30. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4759.1.1 Reference page. 
• Wang, Y-D., Jin, A., Gao, S-C., Wang, J-J. & Dong, Y. 2025. Descriptions of four species of Polyxenida Verhoeff, 1934 (Diplopoda, Penicillata) from China, including one new species and one new record. ZooKeys 1223: 149–167. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1223.135808 Reference page.