Bollmania
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] Bollmania is the sole genus of the family Caspiopetalidae.[4][5]
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Family: | Caspiopetalidae Lohmander, 1931 |
Genus: | Bollmania Silvestri, 1896 |
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Species and their distribution include:[1]
- Bollmania beroni - China
- Bollmania gracilis - Iran
- Bollmania kohalana - Pakistan
- Bollmania nematogona - Iran
- Bollmania nodifrons - Tajikistan
- Bollmania oblonga - Tajikistan
- Bollmania serrata - Tajikistan
References
- 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.
- 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.
- Silvestri, Filippo (1896). "I Diplopodi". Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. 2. 36: 150.
- Shear, W. (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 159–164.
- Alessandro Minelli (2015). Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda. Volume 2. BRILL. pp. 423–. ISBN 978-90-04-18827-3.
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