Macrochaeteumatidae
Sign in to saveMacrochaeteumatidae is a family of millipedes belonging to the order Chordeumatida. Adult millipedes in this family have only 28 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last) rather than the 30 segments usually found in this order.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassDiplopoda
- OrderChordeumatida
- FamilyMacrochaeteumatidae
via GBIF
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
1 sectionsContents
- References
Macrochaeteumatidae is a family of millipedes belonging to the order Chordeumatida. Adult millipedes in this family have only 28 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last) rather than the 30 segments usually found in this order.
Genera: Antroremya Calochaeteuma Miyosi, 1958 Macrochaeteuma Verhoeff, 1914
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Macrochaeteumatidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.