01772nas a2200205 4500008004100000022001400041245015700055210006900212260001500281300000900296490000600305520104300311653001601354653001401370653002001384100002201404700001801426700002401444856009801468 2020 eng d a2568-557000aFirst record of the spirobolid Eucarlia hoffmani Golovatch & Korsós, 1992 (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Pachybolidae) from the Maldives, Indian Ocean0 aFirst record of the spirobolid iEucarlia hoffmanii Golovatch Kor c22/09/2020 a7-110 v93 a

The remote Maldivian archipelago in the Indian Ocean has a diverse invertebrate fauna both underwater and on land. While some terrestrial classes, e.g. spiders, orthopterans, or decapods, have thoroughly been investigated and described on these coralline islands, others have been completely neglected. Although millipedes (Diplopoda) are important detritivores in almost all terrestrial ecosystems, they have until now never been reported from the Maldivian islands. Here, we report the finding of Eucarlia hoffmani Golovatch & Korsós, 1992 on one atoll of the Maldivian archipelago. This species has so far only been recorded from a single atoll between Madagascar and the Seychelles (Farquhar atoll) and therefore be considered as “endangered” by the IUCN red list. Our record of E. hoffmani on the Maldives suggests that the distribution of E. hoffmani is larger than previously known and that this species might, therefore, be less susceptible to possible extinction than considered.

10aArchipelago10amillipede10atropical island1 aSteibl, Sebastian1 aSpelda, Jörg1 aLaforsch, Christian uhttps://www.schubartiana.de/issues/pdf/vol9/steibl-2020-first_record_of_Eucarlia_hoffmani.pdf