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]

Bandeirenica caboverda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Spirostreptida
Family:	Odontopygidae
Genus:	Bandeirenica
Species:	B. caboverda
Binomial name
Bandeirenica caboverda (Pierrard, 1987)
Synonyms
Spinotarsus caboverdus Pierrard, 1987

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]