Genus of millipedes
Bollmania
Scientific classification
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Caspiopetalidae
Lohmander, 1931
Genus:
Bollmania
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
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.32 .
^ Alessandro Minelli (2015). Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda. Volume 2 . BRILL. pp. 423–. ISBN 978-90-04-18827-3 .