Review of the Spirobolida on Madagascar, with descriptions of twelve new genera, including three genera of ' fire millipedes' (Diplopoda)
Author
Wesener, Thomas
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Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, U. S. A. & Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Museumsmeile Bonn, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany. & B 54 D 3623309
Author
Enghoff, Henrik
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Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Author
Sierwald, Petra
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Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, U. S. A.
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ZooKeys
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2009-09-04
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journal article
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Spirobolus olympiacus
Karsch, 1881
Spirobolus olympiacus
Karsch, 1881: 64
S. (Trigoniulus) olympiacus
,
de Saussure & Zehntner 1902: 129
, list species name
Trigoniulus olympiacus
,
Enghoff 2003: 624
, lists species name
Comments
:
the
holotype
is a female which was not studied. According to
Karsch (1881)
, this species is
215 mm
long, with 57 rings, and it was collected in Nosy Be, an island off northwest
Madagascar
. No
Spirobolida
species longer than
200 mm
is currently known from
Madagascar
. Of large-bodied genera, both
Aphistogoniulus
(Wesen- er et al. 2009) and
Colossobolus
species (undescribed) can be found in Nosy Be.