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

Polyxeninae Lucas, 1840

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Polyxenus Latzel, 1884

Literature

original description	Lucas, H. (1840). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Myriapodes. P. Duménil, Paris. 600 pp. + 46 plates (inclusive).
additional source	Nguyen Duy - Jacquemin, M.; Uys, C.; Geoffroy, J.-J. (2011). Two remarkable new species of Penicillata (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) from Table Mountain National Park (Cape Town, South Africa). ZooKeys. 156: 85-103.
additional source	Short, M.; Vahtera, V. (2017). Phylogenetic relationships of millipedes in the subclass Penicillata (Diplopoda) with a key to the genera. Journal of Natural History. 51(41-42): 2443-2461.
additional source	Condé, Bruno; Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique. (2008). Classification actuelle des diplopodes penicillates (Myriapodes) avec nouvelles definitions des taxa [Present classification of Diplopoda Penicillata (Myriapoda), with new definitions of taxa]. Bulletin de la societe zoologique de France. 133 (4): 291-302.