Golovatchiidae
{{Short description|Family of millipedes}}
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Golovatchiidae is a family of millipedes belonging to the order Chordeumatida.{{cite web |title=Golovatchiidae |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7239 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=6 June 2021 |language=en}} This family contains a single species, Golovatchia magda. This species ranges from 15 mm to 17 mm in length and is found in the Russian Far East.{{Cite book |last1=Enghoff |first1=Henrik |title=The Myriapoda |last2=Golovatch |first2=Sergei |last3=Short |first3=Megan |last4=Stoev |first4=Pavel |last5=Wesener |first5=Thomas |publisher=Koninklijke Brill NV |year=2015 |isbn=978-90-04-15612-8 |editor-last=Minelli |editor-first=Alessandro |volume=2 |location=Leiden, The Netherlands |pages=412 |chapter=Diplopoda — Taxonomic Overview}} Adult millipedes of this species have 30 segments (including the collum, the telson, and the rings in between).{{Cite journal|last=Shear|first=William A.|date=1992|title=Golovatchia, new genus, and Golovatchiidae, from the Far East of the Russian Republic, with a comment on Hoffmaneumatidae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatidae)|url=https://www.vmnh.net/content/vmnh/uploads/PDFs/research_and_collections/myriapodologica/myriapodologica_v2_n10.pdf|journal=Myriapodologica|volume=3|issue=4 |pages=25–36}} In the adult male of this species, the gonopod complex involves three leg pairs (pairs 8 through 10) rather than just the two (pairs 8 and 9) that are usually modified into gonopods this order.
- Golovatchia Shear, 1992