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Sphaeropoeus hercules Brandt, 1833
940438 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:940438)
accepted
Species
Sphaeropoeus banksiana (Butler, 1873) · unaccepted (invalid combination)
Sphaeropoeus banksianus Butler, 1873 · unaccepted
Zephronia banksiana Butler, 1873 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Zephronia barbata Butler, 1882 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Zephronia hercules (Brandt, 1833) · unaccepted
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): 200; note: no type locality given!!! [details]
page(s): 200; note: no type locality given!!! [details]
Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2024). MilliBase. Sphaeropoeus hercules Brandt, 1833. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=940438 on 2025-01-13
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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): 200; note: no type locality given!!! [details]
original description (of Zephronia barbata Butler, 1882) Butler, A. G. (1882). Descriptions of new species of Myriopoda of the genus Zephronia from India and Sumatra. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5, 9: 196-197. London
page(s): 197 [details]
original description (of Sphaeropoeus banksiana (Butler, 1873)) Butler, A. G. (1873). A monographic revision of the genera Zephronia and Sphaerotherium, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1872: 172-182. London
page(s): 181 [details]
original description (of Zephronia banksiana Butler, 1873) Butler, A. G. (1873). A monographic revision of the genera Zephronia and Sphaerotherium, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1872: 172-182. London
page(s): 181; note: plate 19, fig. 9 [details]
additional source Butler, A. G. (1873). A monographic revision of the genera Zephronia and Sphaerotherium, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1872: 172-182. London
page(s): 180 [details]
additional source Lucas, H. (1840). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Myriapodes. <em>P. Duménil, Paris.</em> 600 pp. + 46 plates (inclusive)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30739516
page(s): 522 [details]
additional source Sinclair, F. G. (1901). On the myriapods collected during the "Skeat Expedition", to the Malay Peninsula 1899-1900. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1901, Volume 2: 505-533., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35988625
page(s): 527 [details]
additional source Brandt, J. F. (1841). Recueil de mémoires relatifs a l'ordre des Insectes Myriapodes, et lus à l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. 1-189. St. Petersburg
page(s): 181 [details]
additional source Pocock, R. I. (1895). Descriptions of new genera of Zephroniidae, with brief preliminary Diagnoses of some new Species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 16: 409-415
page(s): 412 [details]
additional source de Zoysa, H. K. S.; Nguyen Duc, A.; Wickramasinghe, S. (2016). Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4061 (5): 151-482., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.1
page(s): 456 [details]
additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1914). Die indo-australischen Myriopoden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 80A(4): 1-398. Berlin., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13260451
page(s): 143 [details]
additional source Carl, J. (1906). Diplopoden aus dem Malayischen Archipel (Reise von Dr. Walter Volz). Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere, 24(3): 227-246. Jena
page(s): 230 [details]
additional source Daday, J. (1889). A Magyar nemzeti muzeum indegenföldi Myriopodái - Myriapoda extranea musaei nationalis hungarici. Természentrajzi Füzetek, 12: 115-156. Budapest
page(s): 141 [details]
additional source Jawlowski, H. (1930). Uwagi o niektórych gatunkach rodzaju Leptoiulus Verh., wraz z opisemkilu nowych form z poludniowej Polski. Bemerkungen über einige Arten der Gattung Leptoiulus Verh., nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen Formen aus Süd-Polen. Annales Musei Zoologici Polonici, 9(3): 21-28. Warszawa
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Koch, C. L. (1863). Die Myriapoden. Getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben. Bd. 1. 1-134. Halle, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11100339
page(s): 3; note: description of species [details]
additional source Moritz, M.; Fischer, S.-C. (1974). Die Typen der Myriapoden-Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 1: Polyxenida, Glomerida, Sphaerotheriida, Glomeridesmida, Polyzonida, Craspedosomatida. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 49(2): 351-385. Berlin
page(s): 369 [details]
additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (2001). A bibliographic catalogue of the Asiatic Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda). Myriapod memoranda, 3: 5-38. Oisterwijk
page(s): 23; note: citation of species name [details]
additional source Golovatch, S. I.; Hoffman, R. L. (2000). On the diplopod taxa and type material of J. F. Brandt, with some new descriptions and identities (Diplopoda). Fragmenta faunistica, Supplement, 43: 229-249. Warszawa
page(s): 238 [details]
additional source Silvestri, F. (1895). I Chilopodi ed i Diplopodi di Sumatra e delle isole Nias, Engano e Mentavei. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, serie 2, 14: 707-760. Genova, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7940747
page(s): 722 [details]
additional source Brandt, J. F. (1841). Remarques critiques sur les espèces qui composent les genres Spaherotherium et Sphaeropoeus, suivies d' une description de six espèces nouvelles des Sphaerothéries. Bulletin Scientifique publié par l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8(23): 357-365. St. Petersburg
page(s): 364 [details]
additional source Gervais, P. (1837). Études pour servir á l'histoire naturelle des Myriapodes. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie, série 2, tome 7: 35-60, plate 4b.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2254777
page(s): 43 [details]
additional source Koch, C.L. (1847). Den Verzeichnissen und Berichtigungen zu Deutschlands Crustaceen, Myriapoden und Arachniden und ein System der Myriapoden. [The lists and corrections to Germany's crustaceans, myriapods and arachnids and a system of the myriapods.]. <em>In: Panzer, G.W.F. & Herrich-Schäffer, A. (eds.), Kritische Revision der Insectenfaune Deutschlands.</em> 3: 1-272, pls. 1-10., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33700094
page(s): 100 [details]
additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1965). A revision of the South American Paradoxosomatidae in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, 75: 99-125
page(s): 124 [details]
source of synonymy Pocock, R. I. (1894). Chilopoda, Symphyla and Diplopoda from the Malay Archipelago. In: Weber, M.: Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in Niederländisch Ost-Indien, Band 3, 307-404. Leiden, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47774842
page(s): 326; note: synonymized Z banksiana under S. hercules [details]
source of synonymy 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]
source of synonymy Preudhomme de Borre, A. (1884). Tentamen catalogi Glomeridarum hucusque descriptarum. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 28: 19-28. Bruxelles
page(s): 24 [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 [details]
page(s): 200; note: no type locality given!!! [details]
original description (of Zephronia barbata Butler, 1882) Butler, A. G. (1882). Descriptions of new species of Myriopoda of the genus Zephronia from India and Sumatra. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5, 9: 196-197. London
page(s): 197 [details]
original description (of Sphaeropoeus banksiana (Butler, 1873)) Butler, A. G. (1873). A monographic revision of the genera Zephronia and Sphaerotherium, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1872: 172-182. London
page(s): 181 [details]
original description (of Zephronia banksiana Butler, 1873) Butler, A. G. (1873). A monographic revision of the genera Zephronia and Sphaerotherium, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1872: 172-182. London
page(s): 181; note: plate 19, fig. 9 [details]
additional source Butler, A. G. (1873). A monographic revision of the genera Zephronia and Sphaerotherium, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1872: 172-182. London
page(s): 180 [details]
additional source Lucas, H. (1840). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Myriapodes. <em>P. Duménil, Paris.</em> 600 pp. + 46 plates (inclusive)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30739516
page(s): 522 [details]
additional source Sinclair, F. G. (1901). On the myriapods collected during the "Skeat Expedition", to the Malay Peninsula 1899-1900. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1901, Volume 2: 505-533., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35988625
page(s): 527 [details]
additional source Brandt, J. F. (1841). Recueil de mémoires relatifs a l'ordre des Insectes Myriapodes, et lus à l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. 1-189. St. Petersburg
page(s): 181 [details]
additional source Pocock, R. I. (1895). Descriptions of new genera of Zephroniidae, with brief preliminary Diagnoses of some new Species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 16: 409-415
page(s): 412 [details]
additional source de Zoysa, H. K. S.; Nguyen Duc, A.; Wickramasinghe, S. (2016). Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4061 (5): 151-482., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.1
page(s): 456 [details]
additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1914). Die indo-australischen Myriopoden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 80A(4): 1-398. Berlin., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13260451
page(s): 143 [details]
additional source Carl, J. (1906). Diplopoden aus dem Malayischen Archipel (Reise von Dr. Walter Volz). Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere, 24(3): 227-246. Jena
page(s): 230 [details]
additional source Daday, J. (1889). A Magyar nemzeti muzeum indegenföldi Myriopodái - Myriapoda extranea musaei nationalis hungarici. Természentrajzi Füzetek, 12: 115-156. Budapest
page(s): 141 [details]
additional source Jawlowski, H. (1930). Uwagi o niektórych gatunkach rodzaju Leptoiulus Verh., wraz z opisemkilu nowych form z poludniowej Polski. Bemerkungen über einige Arten der Gattung Leptoiulus Verh., nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen Formen aus Süd-Polen. Annales Musei Zoologici Polonici, 9(3): 21-28. Warszawa
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Koch, C. L. (1863). Die Myriapoden. Getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben. Bd. 1. 1-134. Halle, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11100339
page(s): 3; note: description of species [details]
additional source Moritz, M.; Fischer, S.-C. (1974). Die Typen der Myriapoden-Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 1: Polyxenida, Glomerida, Sphaerotheriida, Glomeridesmida, Polyzonida, Craspedosomatida. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 49(2): 351-385. Berlin
page(s): 369 [details]
additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (2001). A bibliographic catalogue of the Asiatic Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda). Myriapod memoranda, 3: 5-38. Oisterwijk
page(s): 23; note: citation of species name [details]
additional source Golovatch, S. I.; Hoffman, R. L. (2000). On the diplopod taxa and type material of J. F. Brandt, with some new descriptions and identities (Diplopoda). Fragmenta faunistica, Supplement, 43: 229-249. Warszawa
page(s): 238 [details]
additional source Silvestri, F. (1895). I Chilopodi ed i Diplopodi di Sumatra e delle isole Nias, Engano e Mentavei. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, serie 2, 14: 707-760. Genova, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7940747
page(s): 722 [details]
additional source Brandt, J. F. (1841). Remarques critiques sur les espèces qui composent les genres Spaherotherium et Sphaeropoeus, suivies d' une description de six espèces nouvelles des Sphaerothéries. Bulletin Scientifique publié par l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8(23): 357-365. St. Petersburg
page(s): 364 [details]
additional source Gervais, P. (1837). Études pour servir á l'histoire naturelle des Myriapodes. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie, série 2, tome 7: 35-60, plate 4b.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2254777
page(s): 43 [details]
additional source Koch, C.L. (1847). Den Verzeichnissen und Berichtigungen zu Deutschlands Crustaceen, Myriapoden und Arachniden und ein System der Myriapoden. [The lists and corrections to Germany's crustaceans, myriapods and arachnids and a system of the myriapods.]. <em>In: Panzer, G.W.F. & Herrich-Schäffer, A. (eds.), Kritische Revision der Insectenfaune Deutschlands.</em> 3: 1-272, pls. 1-10., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33700094
page(s): 100 [details]
additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1965). A revision of the South American Paradoxosomatidae in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, 75: 99-125
page(s): 124 [details]
source of synonymy Pocock, R. I. (1894). Chilopoda, Symphyla and Diplopoda from the Malay Archipelago. In: Weber, M.: Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in Niederländisch Ost-Indien, Band 3, 307-404. Leiden, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47774842
page(s): 326; note: synonymized Z banksiana under S. hercules [details]
source of synonymy 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]
source of synonymy Preudhomme de Borre, A. (1884). Tentamen catalogi Glomeridarum hucusque descriptarum. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 28: 19-28. Bruxelles
page(s): 24 [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 [details]
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