Romero-Rincon J.1,2*, García-Sarmiento M.J.3 2025. First record of Propolydesmus dismilus (Berlese, 1891) in South America (Polydesmida: Polydesmidae) // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.34. No.2: 179–182 [in English].
1 Centro de Estudos em Biologia Subterrânea, Departamento de Ecologia e Conservação, Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Campus Universitário, P.O. Box 3037, Lavras CEP 37200-000, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
2 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia Aplicada, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras CEP 37200-000, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
3 Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
Juan Romero-Rincon: romerorjuanc@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4521-5529
Martha García-Sarmiento: mjgarcia@pedagogica.edu.co https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7996-9903
* Corresponding author: Juan Romero-Rincon
doi:10.15298/arthsel.34.2.03
ABSTRACT. The millipede species Propolydesmus dismilus (Berlese, 1891) has only rarely been recorded within its distribution range in Western Europe and North Africa. This study reports for the first time the occurrence of the family Polydesmidae Leach, 1815 both in South America and Colombia, with adults of P. dismilus collected in the Humedal Santa María del Lago parkland in Bogotá, D. C.
KEY WORDS: millipede, introduction, Bogotá, park.