The myriapod fauna of the mega-diverse country of Indonesia is so far insufficiently known,
with no species lists or determination keys. In order to obtain an overview of the faunal
composition of the Myriapoda in an Indonesian forest system, the fauna of the Halimun-
Salak National Park in western Java was explored during the dry season (September–
October 2015) in the framework of the German-Indonesian INDOBIOSYS project
(Indonesian Biodiversity Discovery and Information System). A total of 980 Myriapoda
specimens were collected by hand by 3–4 researchers from three different sites in the
national park, from which 796 specimens were determined to a higher taxonomic level
(class, order, family) and 617 specimens were determined to morphospecies. Among
these, 27 were Symphyla (4%) (excluded from further analyses), 226 Chilopoda (28%) and
543 Diplopoda (68%). The Scolopendromorpha (64% of all identified centipedes) and
Polydesmida (69% of all identified Diplopoda) were the most represented orders in our
samples.
