Pyrgodesmidae is a family of flat-backed
millipedes in the order
Polydesmida. The family contains over 200 species distributed in tropics around the world.
Some species are found only in
ant colonies
An ant colony is a population of a single ant species capable to maintain its complete lifecycle. Ant colonies are eusocial, communal, and division of labor, efficiently organized and are very much like those found in other social Hymenoptera ...
, and are considered
obligate myrmecophiles.
References
Polydesmida
Millipede families
Taxa named by Filippo Silvestri
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