Microsphaerotherium

{{short description| Genus of pill millipedes}}

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| authority = Wesener & VandenSpiegel, 2007{{cite journal|url=https://zoologicalbulletin.de/BzB_Volumes/BzM_63/BzM_63.pdf|last=Wesener|first=Thomas|title=The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida – An annotated species catalogue with morphological atlas and list of apomorphies (Arthropoda: diplopoda)| journal=Bonn Zoological Bulletin – Supplementum |volume=63| pages=1–104|year=2016}}

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Microsphaerotherium is a genus of pill millipedes in the family Arthrosphaeridae.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251237625|title=Microsphaerotherium ivohibiense, a new genus and species of Giant-Pill Millipedes from Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaerinae)|last1=Wesener|first1=Thomas|last2=VandenSpiegel|first2=Didier|journal=Journal of Afrotropical Zoology|volume=3|pages=153–160|date=2007}}{{Cite journal|url=https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2097.1.1|title=Unexplored richness: discovery of 31 new species of Giant Pill-Millipedes endemic to Madagascar, with a special emphasis on microendemism (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida)|first=Thomas|last=Wesener|date=May 11, 2009|journal=Zootaxa|volume=2097|issue=1|pages=1–134|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2097.1.1|url-access=subscription}}

Only two species are currently known:

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Category:Sphaerotheriida

Category:Animals described in 2007

Category:Millipedes of Africa

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