Polydesmidea

{{Short description|Suborder of millipedes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Polydesmidea

| image=Polydesmus miljoenpoot.JPG

| image_caption=Polydesmus

| taxon =Polydesmidea

| authority = Leach, 1815

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision =

• Cryptodesmidae Karsch, 1880
• Cyrtodesmidae Cook, 1896
• Dorsoporidae Loomis, 1958
• Fuhrmannodesmidae Brolemann, 1916
• Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895
• Macrosternodesmidae Brolemann, 1916
• Nearctodesmidae Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1950
• Oniscodesmidae De Saussure, 1860
• Polydesmidae Leach, 1815
• Pyrgodesmidae Silvestri, 1896

}}

Polydesmidea is a suborder of flat-backed millipedes under the order Polydesmida.{{ITIS |id=568973 |taxon=Polydesmidea Leach, 1815 |accessdate=18 January 2011}}