Species list, Checklist of Order Polydesmida (Flat-backed Millipedes) for Cape Verde (Macaronesia)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Order Polydesmida Pocock, 1887 (Flat-backed Millipedes)
and region Cape Verde (Macaronesia)

Class	Diplopoda De Blainville in Gervais, 1844 Diplopods, Millepedes, Millipede, Millipedes	12 19 13	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Chilognatha Latreille, 1802	11 18 13	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Helminthomorpha Pocock, 1887	10 17 13	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Merocheta Cook, 1895	4 8 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Polydesmida Pocock, 1887 Flat-backed Millipedes	4 8 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Cape Verde
4 Families width 4 Species

Platyrhacidae Pocock, 1895	2	Species	Taxom
Pyrgodesmidae Silvestri, 1896	2	Species	Taxom
Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895	0	Species	Taxom
Fuhrmannodesmidae Brölemann, 1916	0	Species	Taxom

Genera for Cape Verde
8 Genera with 4 Species

Barydesmus Cook, 1897	1	Species	Taxom
Cliodesmus Chamberlin, 1923	1	Species	Taxom
Cylindrodesmus Pocock, 1889	0	Species	Taxom
Dasyodontus Loomis, 1936	0	Species	Taxom
Docodesmus Cook, 1981	1	Species	Taxom
Iomus Cook, 1911	0	Species	Taxom
Platyrhacus Koch, 1899	1	Species	Taxom
Psochodesmus Cook, 1896	0	Species	Taxom

Species list for Cape Verde
4 Species

Barydesmus bifasciatus Silvestri, 1897
Cliodesmus cryptopygus Chamberlin, 1923
Docodesmus brodzinskyi ♰ W. A. Shear, 1981	White-lip gardensnail
Platyrhacus helophorus Attems, 1899

Subnodes of Polydesmida with occurrences in Cape Verde

Suborder	Chelodesmidea Cook, 1895	1 2 2	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Polydesmidea Leach, 1815	3 6 2	Families Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Polydesmida at artfakta.se
Polydesmida at dyntaxa.se
Polydesmida at gbif.org
Polydesmida at irmng.org
Polydesmida at itis.gov