Fauna and Zoogeography of Myriapoda in Bulgaria

Abstract

The paper summarizes all information on taxonomic diversity of subphylum Myriapoda in Bulgaria, and provides a preliminary faunal and zoogeographical analysis. At present, 240 species and subspecies from 31 families and 70 genera are known from Bulgaria; further 28 taxa have uncertain status. About half of Bulgarian myriapods (45%) belongs to the endemic (Balkan) complex, while the rest originate from outside the Balkan Peninsula. A substantial part of the endemics are cave inhabitants. The work is supplemented by a complete bibliography