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
text
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
7911071
Zoosphaerium pseudoplatylabum
Wesener, 2009
Fig. 19
Zoosphaerium pseudoplatylabum
:
Wesener 2009: 54
.
Description:
Anal shield shape
: Well rounded until bottom, where slightly flared and very slightly tapered downward.
Female sexual characters
: Vulva large, covering more than 3/4 of coxa (
Fig. 19A
). Operculum large, reaching almost to apical edge of coxa, with deep notch apically, sometimes with second tiny notch on lateral half. Mesal plate long and broad, protruding to 1/4 operculum height (
Fig. 19A
). Subanal plate with washboard possessing one weakly developed stridulation rib on each half (
Fig. 19B
).
Material
examined:
MADAGASCAR
:
Fianarantsoa Prov.
: 1ơ 1^(
FMNH-INS 7801
), 13ơ (
FMNH-INS 7913
) extreme northern limit of
R.S. de
Ivohibe
, along
Hefitany R.
,
ca
7.5 km
ENE Ivohibe
, montane rainforest,
1200 m
,
22°28.2'S
:
46°57.6'E
,
S.M. Goodman
,
pitfall traps
,
3.ix.1997
.
Additional material and locality information