Bandeirenica caboverda
Bandeirenica caboverda, locally known in Cape Verde as "mil-pés" (Portuguese for "thousand-feet"), is a species of millipedes of the family Odontopygidae.[1] It is endemic to Cape Verde, where it occurs in the islands of Santo Antão and São Vicente.[2] First described in 1987 as Spinotarsus caboverdus, it was placed in the genus Bandeirenica in 2000.[3]
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The animal is a pest on Santo Antão, where it damages food crops such as potato, sweet potato, papaya and mango.[4] The Cape Verde government issued a prohibition on the exportation of many of the island's products to the other islands.[5][6]
References
- Bandeirenica caboverda (Pierrard, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 January 2019.
- Oromí, Martín, Zurita & Cabrera, 2005 : Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: Hongos, Plantas y Animales Terrestres. Gobierno de Canarias, Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial, p. 66, as Spinotarsus caboverdus
- Hoffman, R.L. (2000). "On the generic position of Spinotarsus caboverdus (Spirostreptida: Odontopygidae)". Myriapodologica. 6 (10): 87–94. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.692.954.
- B. Nascimento, H. Sermann: Economic importance of millipedes on Santo Antao (Cape Verde) using the example of Spinotarsus caboverdus (Pierrard). October 2001
- Agriculture producers from Santo Antão can now export to Sal and Boa Vista Archived 2008-02-10 at archive.today, A Semana online, 9 January 2008
- SANTO ANTÃO: Embargo aos produtos agrícolas termina dentro de dois meses (in Portuguese) (archived)
Further reading
- Beata Nascimento, Helga Sermann, Carmen Büttner: The influence of environmental conditions on the naturalization of the alien millipede species Spinotarsus caboverdus (Pierrard, 1987) on Cape Verde
- Abstracts
- B. Nascimento, H. Sermann, C. Büttner: Biology and the Natural Control of Pest Millipedes Spinotarsus caboverdus (Pierrard, 1987) from Cape Verde (web version) — Tropentag 2002
- B. Nascimento, H. Sermann, C. Büttner: Occurrence of Millipedes by Example of Spinotarsus caboverdus on Cape Verde (web wersion) — Tropentag 2003
- B. Nascimento, H. Sermann, C. Büttner: Possibilities for the Natural Adjustment of the Millipedes Exemplary of Spinotarsus caboverdus (Pierrard) on Cape Verde (web version) — Tropentag 2004
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