Apheloria

{{Short description|Genus of millipedes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Apheloria virginiensis corrugata 2014-06-24.jpg

| image_caption = Apheloria virginiensis

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| taxon = Apheloria

| authority = Chamberlin, 1921

| synonyms =

Leptocircus Attems, 1931

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Apheloria is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae, occurring in the central and southeastern United States, and ranging as far north as southern Quebec, Canada.Hoffman, Richard L. 1999. Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications 8, pp. 293-296Marek, Paul; Tanabe, Tsutomu; Sierwald, Petra (2014) [http://www.vmnh.net/content/File/Research_and_Collections/VMNHSpecialPub17.pdf A Species Catalog of the Millipede Family Xystodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124163441/http://www.vmnh.net/content/File/Research_and_Collections/VMNHSpecialPub17.pdf |date=2017-01-24 }} Special Publication 17. Virginia Museum of Natural History. pp. 7-9 They are aposematically colored in black and contrasting reds and yellows, and some species in the Appalachian Mountains resemble species of Brachoria where they co-occur, a phenomenon known as Müllerian mimicry.{{cite journal|last=Marek|first=P. E.|author2=Bond, J. E. |title=A Mullerian mimicry ring in Appalachian millipedes|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|year=2009|volume=106|issue=24|pages=9755–9760|doi=10.1073/pnas.0810408106|pmid=19487663|pmc=2700981|doi-access=free|bibcode=2009PNAS..106.9755M }}