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Bollmania

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Bollmania
Scientific classification
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Caspiopetalidae

Lohmander, 1931
Genus:
Bollmania

Silvestri, 1896
Synonyms
  • Trypostrphon Cook, 1896
  • Apatidea Attems, 1936
  • Caspiopetalum Lohmander, 1931
  • 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] Bollmania is the sole genus of the family Caspiopetalidae.[4][5]

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

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  1. ^ a b 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. S2CID 84776001.
  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. 85: 157–169. JSTOR 41766661.
  3. ^ Silvestri, Filippo (1896). "I Diplopodi". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 2. 36: 150.
  4. ^ 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.32.
  5. ^ Alessandro Minelli (2015). Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda. Volume 2. BRILL. pp. 423–. ISBN 978-90-04-18827-3.