Species Floridobolus penneri

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Habitat · Food · Print References

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Myriapoda (Myriapods)

Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)

Order Spirobolida

Family Spirobolidae

Genus Floridobolus

Species penneri (Floridobolus penneri)

Other Common Names

Florida Scrub Millipede

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Floridobolus penneri Causey, 1957

Range

Restricted to the Lake Wales Ridge of Polk and Highlands Counties, FL

Habitat

Florida scrub, with low growing, shrubby plants in dry, sandy soil.

Food

In captivity, feeds on partly decomposed scrub oak leaves (Quercus ?inopina) and small twigs

Print References

Deyrup, M., & Carrel, J. E. (2012). Conservation Status and Management of Lake Wales Ridge Arthropods Restricted to Scrub Habitat. 10.13140/RG.2.1.2126.0321.

Shelley, R. M., & Floyd, S. D. (2014). Expanded concept of the millipede family Spirobolidae (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Spirobolidea): Proposals of Aztecolini n. tribe and Floridobolinae/ini and Tylobolini n. stats.; re) descriptions of Floridobolus and F. penneri, both Causey, 1957, and F. orini n. sp.; hypotheses on origins and affinities.

Shelley, R., Phillips, G. J., & Bernard, E. C. (2014). A third species of the endemic Floridian millipede genus Floridobolus Causey, 1957 (Spirobolida: Spirobolidae: Floridobolinae).

Contributed by Jeff Brown on 15 December, 2015 - 10:01pm
Additional contributions by metrioptera
Last updated 11 March, 2020 - 7:42am

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