Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Myriapoda > Class Diplopoda > Subclass Penicillata > Order Polyxenida > Superfamily Polyxenoidea > Family Polyxenidae > Subfamily Polyxeninae > Genus Polyxenus

Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Polyxenus*	Latzel, 1884	accepted genus name
*Pollyxenus*	auct.	misapplied name

Species group names

*Scolopendra lagurus*	Linnaeus, 1758	objective synonym
*Polyxenus germanicus*	Verhoeff, 1941	subjective synonym
*Scolopendra lagura*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: penseeltje sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: bristly millipede

German: Kleiner Pinselfüßer sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Norwegian Bokmål: børstetusenbein sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: børstetusenbein sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: penselfoting

Literature

basis of record	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Reip, H. S.; Voigtländer, K. (2024). Millipedes (Diplopoda) of the Euskal Herria / Basque Region in Northern España/Spain – Results of an international field trip in 2009. Schubartiana. 11: 27-70.
additional source	Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M. (1976). Etude de la variabilité des charactères de deux espèces du genre Polyxenus, P. lagurus (L.) et P. fasciculatus SAY (Diplopode, Pénicillate). Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 3e série, Zoologie, 249: 105-118
additional source	Golovatch, S. I.; Wesener, T. (2016). A species checklist of the millipedes (Myriapoda, Diplopoda) of India. Zootaxa. 4129(1): 1-75.
additional source	Blower, J.G. (1985) Millipedes. Linnean Society Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 35. E.J.Brill/Dr W.Backhuys, London, Leiden, Koln, Kobenhavn.
additional source	Short, M.; Vahtera, V.; Wesener, T.; Golovatch, S. I. (2020). The millipede family Polyxenidae (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) in the faunas of the Crimean Peninsula and Caucasus, with notes on other European Polyxenidae. Zootaxa. 4772(2): 306-332.
additional source	Brölemann, H. W. (1921). Myriapods from Mesopotamia and Persia collected by Mr. P. A. Buxton. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 28: 157-161
additional source	Condé, B. (1996). Une approche des Diplopoda Penicillata de l'Amerique du Nord. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, N. S., 169: 127-135
additional source	Haľková, B.; Drabová, M.; Mock, A. (2021). An annotated checklist of millipede fauna from Slovakia, with ecological and biogeographic characteristics. Biodiversity Data Journal. 9.
additional source	Kocourek, P.; Dolejš, P.; Kovaříková, A. (2023). Atlas rozšíření mnohonožek v České republice / Atlas of the Millipedes of the Czech Republic.
additional source	Vagalinski, B.; Golovatch, S.; Simaiakis, S. M.; Enghoff, H.; Stoev, P. (2014). Millipedes of Cyprus (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). Zootaxa. 3835(4): 528-548.