Primera cita de la Familia Polyzoniidae Newport, 1844 (Diplopoda, Polyzoniida) en la Península Ibérica

Millipedes (Diplopoda) are a group of terrestrial arthropods with high specific diversity at a global scale. There are 12,000 species worldwide, distributed in 16 orders and 145 families. The family Polyzoniidae is represented in Europe by three species, being Polyzonium germanicum Brandt, 1837 the one with the widest distribution. To date there are no records in the Iberian Peninsula for this family. Polyzonium germanicum mainly inhabits humid or very humid soils, either in coniferous, deciduous or mixed forests. This note describes a population of P. germanicum in soils of a beech forest located in the north of Barcelona province (Spain). This report represents the first record of P. germanicum and the family Polyzoniidae in the Iberian Peninsula.