Mauriesia

Chang, Hsueh-Wen, 2010, Pill-millipedes (Glomerida, Diplopoda) in Taiwan, Zootaxa 2477, pp. 1-20 : 4

Mauriesia and the classification of the family Glomeridae

The family Glomeridae currently contains three subfamilies, the Haploglomerinae, the Glomerinae and the Doderiinae (Mauriès 2006).

The Haploglomerinae contains 4–5 genera in Southeast Asia (down to Sumatra in the southeast) and another three genera in Europe, all characterized by especially simple (at least partly secondarily simplified?) telopods. These are usually relatively strongly elongated; only the femur shows a distinct mesal outgrowth/ process, whereas the setae can be absent from or present (and then either borne on finger-shaped processes or not) on the mesal face either of the prefemur alone or of both the prefemur and femur, or even of the prefemur, femur and tibia.

The second subfamily, Glomerinae , contains two tribes and numerous genera, all confined to the Holarctic and showing the telopods generally more stout, devoid of a differentiated, complex distomesal outgrowth on the femur, but with mesal setae, borne on finger-shaped processes or not, usually present on each or at least two of the telopoditomeres except the tarsus.

Finally, the subfamily Doderiinae contains nine genera in the Euro-Mediterranean region, one strictly in Southeast Asia, and one more, Hyleoglomeris , ranging from Greece in the west to Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines in the east, and even to Sulawesi in the southeast. This subfamily is characterized by usually strongly enlarged, stout telopods (more rarely elongated), in which at least the femur, and often the prefemur and tibia, are supplied with a seta, borne on a finger-shaped process or not, while the femur normally carries a more or less strongly differentiated distocaudal process ( Mauriès 1971, 2006). The telopod structure of the few Taiwanese Hyleoglomeris treated below will suffice to illustrate this diagnosis.