Bollmania

Bollmania
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Callipodida
Family: Caspiopetalidae
Genus: Bollmania
Silvestri, 1896
Synonyms
  • Trypostrphon Cook, 1896
  • Apatidea Attems, 1936
  • Iranopetalum Attems, 1951

Bollmania is a genus of millipedes with around six species occurring from Central through East Asia, including Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and China.[1][2] The genus was established by entomologist Filippo Silvestri in 1896, and is named in honor of Charles Harvey Bollman.[3]

Species and their distribution include:[1]


References

  1. 1 2 Stoev, Pavel; Enghoff, Henrik (2005). "A new cave‐dwelling millipede of the genus Bollmania Silvestri, 1896 from Yunnan, China, with remarks on the reduction of the second female leg‐pair (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Caspiopetalidae)". Journal of Natural History. 39 (21): 1875–1891. doi:10.1080/00222930400025896.
  2. Golovatch, Sergei I. (1981). "A contribution to the millipede fauna of Iran (Diplopoda)" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B für Botanik und Zoologie: 157–169. JSTOR 41766661.
  3. Silvestri, Filippo (1896). "I Diplopodi". Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. 2. 36: 150.
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