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Bollmania is a genus of millipedes with around six species occurring from Central through East Asia, including Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and China. The genus was established by entomologist Filippo Silvestri in 1896, and is named in honor of Charles Harvey Bollman. Bollmania is the sole genus of the family Caspiopetalidae.

Species and their distribution include:

• Bollmania beroni - China
• Bollmania gracilis - Iran
• Bollmania kohalana - Pakistan
• Bollmania nematogona - Iran
• Bollmania nodifrons - Tajikistan
• Bollmania oblonga - Tajikistan
• Bollmania serrata - Tajikistan

References

1. ^ Stoev, Pavel; Enghoff, Henrik (2005). "A new cave-dwelling millipede of the genus Bollmania Silvestri, 1896 from Yunnan, China, with remarks on the reduction of the second female leg-pair (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Caspiopetalidae)". Journal of Natural History. 39 (21): 1875–1891. doi:10.1080/00222930400025896. S2CID 84776001.
2. Golovatch, Sergei I. (1981). "A contribution to the millipede fauna of Iran (Diplopoda)" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B für Botanik und Zoologie. 85: 157–169. JSTOR 41766661.
3. Silvestri, Filippo (1896). "I Diplopodi". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 2. 36: 150.
4. Shear, W. (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 159–164. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.32.
5. Alessandro Minelli (2015). Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda. Volume 2. BRILL. pp. 423–. ISBN 978-90-04-18827-3.

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