Bandeirenica caboverda, locally known in Cape Verde as "mil-pés" (Portuguese for "thousand-feet"), is a species of millipedes of the family Odontopygidae. It is endemic to Cape Verde, where it occurs in the islands of Santo Antão and São Vicente.Oromí, Martín, Zurita & Cabrera, 2005 : Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: Hongos, Plantas y Animales Terrestres. Gobierno de Canarias, Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial, p. 66, as Spinotarsus caboverdus First described in 1987 as Spinotarsus caboverdus, it was placed in the genus Bandeirenica in 2000.
The animal is a pest on Santo Antão, where it damages food crops such as potato, sweet potato, papaya and mango.B. Nascimento, H. Sermann: Economic importance of millipedes on Santo Antao (Cape Verde) using the example of Spinotarsus caboverdus (Pierrard). October 2001 The Cape Verde government issued a prohibition on the exportation of many of the island's products to the other islands.Agriculture producers from Santo Antão can now export to Sal and Boa Vista , A Semana online, 9 January 2008SANTO ANTÃO: Embargo aos produtos agrícolas termina dentro de dois meses (archived)
References
Further reading Beata Nascimento, Helga Sermann, Carmen Büttner: The influence of environmental conditions on the naturalization of the alien millipede species Spinotarsus caboverdus (Pierrard, 1987) on Cape Verde
Abstracts B. Nascimento, H. Sermann, C. Büttner: Biology and the Natural Control of Pest Millipedes Spinotarsus caboverdus (Pierrard, 1987) from Cape Verde (web version) — Tropentag 2002 B. Nascimento, H. Sermann, C. Büttner: Occurrence of Millipedes by Example of Spinotarsus caboverdus on Cape Verde (web wersion) — Tropentag 2003 B. Nascimento, H. Sermann, C. Büttner: Possibilities for the Natural Adjustment of the Millipedes Exemplary of Spinotarsus caboverdus (Pierrard) on Cape Verde (web version) — Tropentag 2004