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Bandeirenica caboverda, locally known in Cape Verde as "mil-pés" (Portuguese for "thousand-feet"), is a species of millipedes of the family Odontopygidae. It is endemic to Cape Verde, where it occurs in the islands of Santo Antão and São Vicente. First described in 1987 as Spinotarsus caboverdus, it was placed in the genus Bandeirenica in 2000.

The animal is a pest on Santo Antão, where it damages food crops such as potato, sweet potato, papaya and mango. The Cape Verde government issued a prohibition on the exportation of many of the island's products to the other islands.

References

1. Bandeirenica caboverda (Pierrard, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 January 2019.
2. 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
3. Hoffman, R.L. (2000). "On the generic position of Spinotarsus caboverdus (Spirostreptida: Odontopygidae)". Myriapodologica. 6 (10): 87–94. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.692.954.
4. B. Nascimento, H. Sermann: Economic importance of millipedes on Santo Antao (Cape Verde) using the example of Spinotarsus caboverdus (Pierrard). October 2001
5. 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
6. 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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