Integrative revision of the giant pill-millipede genus Sphaeromimus from Madagascar, with the description of seven new species (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae)
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Wesener, Thomas
Author
Le, Daniel Minh-Tu
Author
Loria, Stephanie F.
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ZooKeys
2014
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7730
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7730
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Sphaeromimus splendidus Wesener & Sierwald, 2005
Sphaeromimus splendidus
Wesener & Sierwald, 2005: 567 (first description);
Wesener and
Waegele
2007
: 150 (ecology);
Wesener 2009
: 131 (list);
Wesener and VandenSpiegel 2009
: 548 (morphological phylogenetic analysis);
Wesener et al. 2010
: 1185 (molecular phylogenetic analysis);
Wesener 2014b
: (morphological phylogenetic analysis).
Additional specimen records.
1 ♀ paratype, ZFMK MYR2272 (tranferred from FMNH), coll. T. Wesener, 06.iv.2003; 11 ♂ & ♀, ZFMK MYR2271, coll. Wesener
&
amp;
Schuette
, 01.vi.2007; 3 ♂ & ♀, ZFMK MYR2277, same data as previous; 19 ♂ & ♀, FMNH-INS 56031, same data as previous.
Localities.
Only recorded from the littoral rainforest at Sainte Luce, fragment S9 (
Wesener and Sierwald 2005
). The two specimens from which the COI gene was sequenced differ by a single base pair substitution.