The millipede Typhloglomeriscaucasica Golovatch, 1975 found epigeically (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridellidae) Author Golovatch, Sergei Author Chumachenko, Yuri A. text Biodiversity Data Journal 2013 1 981 981 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e981 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e981 1314-2828--981 Rank: SpeciesType of treatment: Redescription or species observationextantHabitat: terrestrialRoot classification: 8 Typhloglomeris caucasica Golovatch, 1975 Materials Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: Y. A. Chumachenko ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: male ; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Diplopoda; order: Glomerida; family: Glomeridellidae; genus: Typhloglomeris; specificEpithet: caucasica; scientificNameAuthorship: Golovatch, 1975; Location: country: Russia ; stateProvince: Sochi; verbatimLocality: Khosta, Caucasian Biosphere Nature Reserve; Event: samplingProtocol: pitfall trapping ; eventDate: 14 July - 10 August 2006 ; habitat: Taxus & Buxus relict forest; Record Level: institutionCode: Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, Russia Discussion The recent discovery of Typhloglomeris caucasica in a pitfall trap in forest near Sochi indicates that the ecological status of this species is a troglophile, not a troglobite, when it occurs in caves in the same area. This record emphasizes the need to carefully collect near and outside caves when assessing the degree of cavernicoly of endogean animals.