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Issue: Vol. 2427 No. 1: 15 Apr. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2427.1.7
Page range: 64–68
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 2

On the identity of Basigona lucasii Silvestri, 1896, a poorly known millipede from Tunisia, with notes on the North African Chordeumatida (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Chamaesomatidae)

Research Unit of Biodiversity and Biology of Populations, Institut Supérieur des Sciences Biologiques Appliquées de Tunis, 9 Avenue Dr. Zouheir Essafi, La Rabta, 1007 Tunis, Tunisia
Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum), University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 København Ø, Denmark
National Museum of Natural History, Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. 1, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, USM 602 Taxonomie, 57 rue Cuvier, F.75231 Paris, France
Myriapoda Diplopoda Chordeumatida Chamaesomatidae

Abstract

Considering the very high diversity of Chordeumatida in Europe, namely almost 500 described species in 140 genera (Enghoff & Kime 2009), the paucity of records of this order in North Africa is striking. The order has hitherto been reported only from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

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