Annotated checklist of the millipede family Chelodesmidae Cook, 1895 from São Paulo state, Brazil (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) Rodrigo Salvador Bouzan¹³; Luiz Felipe Moretti Iniesta¹²⁴; João Paulo Peixoto Pena-Barbosa¹⁵ & Antonio Domingos Brescovit¹⁶ ¹ Instituto Butantan, Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas (LECZ). São Paulo, SP. Brasil. ² Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Instituto de Biociências (IB‑USP). São Paulo, SP. Brasil. ³ E‑mail:
[email protected] ⁴ ORCID: 0000‑0002‑0529‑4162. E‑mail: luiz‑
[email protected] ⁵ E‑mail:
[email protected] ⁶ ORCID: 0000‑0002‑1511‑5324. E‑mail:
[email protected] Abstract. A checklist of the family Chelodesmidae Cook, 1895 (order Polydesmida) from state of São Paulo, Brazil has been performed based on literature and examined material from the collection of the Instituto Butantan, São Paulo (IBSP). A total of 15 genera (7 tribes and 5 genera considered incertae sedis) with 64 species are listed. Among these species, 30 presented a single one record in the state, 19 with more than one record and four recorded for the first time for the state of São Paulo, and 11 species occurring in other Brazilian states. The most distributed species is Brasilodesmus paulistus paulistus (Brölemann, 1902) with 52 records of occurrence. In addition, a complete bibliography list of the chelodesmidan fauna from the state is compiled, as well as distribution maps for all species are provided. Key-Words. Neotropical; Chelodesminae; Diversity; Atlantic forest; Cerrado. INTRODUCTION best-explored region in relation to the Brazilian diversity of Chelodesmidae. For this, great part of Among the representatives of the class the information concerning the millipede fauna is Diplopoda, Chelodesmidae Cook, 1895 is one of resulted of extensive studies made by Schubart the richest families, with almost 800 described in the last century (Knysak & Martins, 1999).