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 platylabum
(de
Saussure & Zehntner, 1897
)
Zoosphaerium platylabum
(de Saussure & Zehntner)
:
Wesener & Wägele 2008: 50
.
Material
examined:
MADAGASCAR
:1ơ (
FMNH-INS 55900
) Andasibe-Perinet,
18°57.609'S
:
48°25.728'E
,
T. Wesener
&
K. Schütte
,
18.vi.2007
.
Distribution: Another specimen known from the
type
locality.
Remarks: The male seems to be not fully mature. Living colour was light brown, with dark brown posterior margins and dark green legs and antennae.