Haplogona

Haplogona is a genus of chordeumatidan millipedes and the only genus in the family Verhoeffiidae. Adult millipedes in this family have 30 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last).[1][2] These species occur in the southern Alps of Europe, from Genoa, Italy to the Istrian peninsula.[3]

Haplogona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Diplopoda
Order:
Chordeumatida
Family:
Verhoeffiidae

Verhoeff, 1899
Genus:
Haplogona

Cook, 1895
Species
  • Haplogona carinthiaca
  • Haplogona gestroi
  • Haplogona oculodistincta
  • Haplogona rothenbuehleri
Synonyms

Verhoeffia

References
  1. Enghoff, Henrik; Dohle, Wolfgang; Blower, J. Gordon (1993). "Anamorphosis in Millipedes (Diplopoda) — The Present State of Knowledge with Some Developmental and Phylogenetic Considerations". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 109 (2): 103–234. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00305.x.
  2. Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015-01-01). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 9789004156128.
  3. Kurnik, I. (1987). "Studien an Chordeumatida (Diplopoda) 2: Die Weibchen der Verhoeffiidae" (PDF). Carinthia II (in German and English). 97: 169–177. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-11.


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