Arthrosphaera
{{Short description|Genus of pill millipedes}}
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| image = Pillmillipede_talakaveri.jpg
| image_caption = An Arthrosphaera fumosa from India.
| taxon = Arthrosphaera
| authority = Pocock, 1895{{cite journal | last=Pocock | first=R. I. | title=LIV.— Descriptions of new genera of Zephroniidae, with brief preliminary diagnoses of some new species | journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History | volume=16 | issue=95 | date=1895 | doi=10.1080/00222939508680293 | pages=409–415 [410] | url = https://archive.org/details/biostor-66390/page/410/mode/1up}}
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Arthrosphaera is a genus of pill millipedes in the family Arthrosphaeridae, found in Africa, Madagascar, the Western Ghats of India, and Sri Lanka.{{cite journal|title=Swarming behaviour and mass occurrences in the world's largest giant pill-millipede species, Zoosphaerium neptunus, on Madagascar and its implication for conservation efforts (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida)|last1=Wesener|first1=Thomas| last2=Schütte|first2=Kai|year=2010|journal=Madagascar Conservation & Development|volume=5|issue=2|pages=89–94|doi=10.4314/mcd.v5i2.63137|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222315123|title=Distribution of Pill Millipedes (Arthrosphaera) and Associated Soil Fauna in the Western Ghats and West Coast of India|first1=K. M.|last1=Ashwini|first2=K. R.|last2=Sridhar|date=December 1, 2008| journal=Pedosphere|volume=18|issue=6|pages=749–757|doi=10.1016/S1002-0160(08)60070-3}}{{cite journal | last=Zoysa | first=H. K. S. De | last2=Nguyen | first2=Anh D. | last3=Wickramasinghe | first3=S. | title=Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4061 | issue=5 | date=2016-01-11| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.1 | pages=451–482 [454] | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289858025}}
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Category:Arthropods of Madagascar
Category:Arthropods of Sri Lanka
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