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Species of millipede From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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Genus: | Bandeirenica |
Species: | B. caboverdus |
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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]