Madagascar’s living giants: discovery of five new species of endemic giant pill-millipedes from Madagascar (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Arthrosphaeridae: Zoosphaerium)
Author
Wesener, Thomas
Author
Bespalova, Ioulia
Author
Sierwald, Petra
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African Invertebrates
2010
2010-05-31
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.051.0102
journal article
10.5733/afin.051.0102
2305-2562
Zoosphaerium villosum
Wesener & Sierwald, 2005
Zoosphaerium villosum
:
Wesener & Sierwald 2005: 19
;
Wesener & Wägele 2008: 42
.
Material
examined:
MADAGASCAR
:
Toamasina Prov.
: 3^(
CASC
BLF 13126
)
Reserve Betampona
,
Camp Rendrirendry
34.1 km
332°
Toamasina
,
390 m
, rainforest,
17°55'26"S
:
49°11'59"E
,
B.L. Fisher
et al.
, general collecting in camp,
28.xi.2005
;
1^(
CASC
BLF 13243
)
Reserve Betampona Camp Vohitsivalana
,
37.1 km
338°
Toamasina
, rainforest,
520 m
,
17°53'12"S
:
49°12'09"E
,
B.L. Fisher
et al.
, general collecting in camp,
1–3.xii. 2005
.
Antsiranana Prov.
: 1ơ (
FMNH-INS 7819
)
Forêt de Betaolana
, 11.0 km NW
Ambogiangezoka
,
Befnolana
camp #2, rainforest,
1200 m
,
14°36.6'S
:
49°25.5'E
,
S.M. Goodman
,
18.x.1999
;
4ơ (
FMNH-INS 7827
), 1ơ (
FMNH-INS
0000)
Station Forestiere de Tampolo
, littoral rainforest,
10 m
,
17°17.2'S
:
49°24.5'E
,
S.M. Goodman
,
pitfall traps
,
3–16.iv.1997
.
Distribution: This species is obviously relatively widely distributed in rainforests in north-eastern
Madagascar
.