Polyxenidae is a family of

millipede Millipedes are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name derived from this feature. Each double-legged segment is a resu ...

s in the order

Polyxenida Polyxenida is an order of millipedes readily distinguished by a unique body plan consisting of a soft, non-calcified body ornamented with tufts of bristles – traits that have inspired the common names "bristly millipedes" or "pincushion millip ...

containing approximately 47 species in 19

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

. Adults in all species in this family have 13 pairs of legs.

Genera

* '' Allographis'' Silvestri 1948 * '' Anopsxenus'' Condé & Jacquemin 1963 * '' Chilexenus'' Silvestri 1948 * '' Eudigraphis ''Silvestri 1948 * ''

Macroxenodes ''Macroxenodes'' is a genus of bristly millipedes in the family Polyxenidae Polyxenidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyxenida containing approximately 47 species in 19 genera. Adults in all species in this family have 13 pairs o ...

''Silvestri 1948 * '' Macroxenus ''Brölemann 1917 * '' Mauritixenus ''Verhoeff 1939 * '' Mesoxenontus ''Silvestri 1948 * '' Miopsxenus'' Condé 1951 * '' Monographis'' Attems 1907 * '' Monoxenus ''Jones 1937 * '' Pauropsxenus'' Silvestri 1948 (Fossil species known from

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

) * '' Pollyxenus ''Latreille 1802/1803 * ''

Polyxenus In Greek mythology, Polyxenus or Polyxeinus (, ''Poluxenos'', or , ''Poluxeinos'') is a name that may refer to: *Polyxenus, one of the first priests of Demeter and one of the first to learn the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries. *Polyxenus, s ...

'' Latzel 1884 * '' Propolyxenus ''Silvestri 1948 * '' Saroxenus ''Cook 1896 * '' Silvestrus'' Jones 1937 * '' Typhloxenus'' Condé 1955 * '' Unixenus'' Jones 1944 * †'' Electroxenus'' Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin and Azar 2004

Lebanese amber Lebanese amber is fossilized resin found in Lebanon and southwest Syria. It dates back approximately 130-125 million years to the Barremian of the Early Cretaceous. It formed on what was then the northern coast of Gondwana, believed to be a tropica ...

Barremian The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale (or a chronostratigraphic stage) between 129.4 ± 1.5 Ma (million years ago) and 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma). It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous Epoch (or Lower Cretaceous Series). It is preceded ...

* †'' Libanoxenus'' Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin and Azar 2004 Lebanese amber, Barremian

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* Polyxenida Millipede families {{myriapoda-stub

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