Pyrgodesmidae

Pyrgodesmidae
	A pyrgodesmid in Singapore
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Polydesmida
Family:	Pyrgodesmidae; Silvestri, 1896

Pyrgodesmidae is a family of flat-backed

millipedes in the order Polydesmida. The family contains over 200 species distributed in tropics around the world.^[1]^[2] Some species are found only in ant colonies, and are considered obligate myrmecophiles.^[3]

References

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.32
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^ "Geographic distribution of Millipede Families" (PDF). Milli-PEET Identification Tables. The Field Museum, Chicago. Retrieved 9 November 2014.

^ Stoev, Pavel; Lapeva-Gjonova, Albena (2005). "Myriapods from ant nests in Bulgaria (Chilopoda, Diplopoda)" (PDF). Peckiana. 4: 131–142. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-11-10.

Taxon identifiers
Pyrgodesmidae

Wikidata: Q6447109

Wikispecies: Pyrgodesmidae

AFD: Pyrgodesmidae

BugGuide: 97567

CoL: 7NKSB

Fauna Europaea: 11577

Fauna Europaea (new): eb367a7e-31cf-45d6-b344-bf4f77e80061

GBIF: 8241

iNaturalist: 245160

IRMNG: 112790

ITIS: 189353

NBN: NHMSYS0020108487

NCBI: 245713

Open Tree of Life: 317355

Paleobiology Database: 304904

WoRMS: 888770

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[Shear2011-1] :10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.32
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[2] "Geographic distribution of Millipede Families" (PDF). Milli-PEET Identification Tables. The Field Museum, Chicago. Retrieved 9 November 2014.

[Stoev&Bavel2005-3] Stoev, Pavel; Lapeva-Gjonova, Albena (2005). "Myriapods from ant nests in Bulgaria (Chilopoda, Diplopoda)" (PDF). Peckiana. 4: 131–142. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-11-10.

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