Among the small to very small polydesmoid milli pedes (2–16 mm long), or so-called micropolydesmids, the family Trichopolydesmidae has been considered
within either the superfamily Trichopolydesmoidea [Golovatch, 2013; Enghoff et al., 2015] or the superfamily Polydesmoidea [Shear, Reddell, 2017].