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The shape and position of the locking carinae, as well as the slender posterior telopods place
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in the
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differs from all other species of the group in the combination of the presence of two stridulation ribs on the male harp, slender posterior telopods in which both fingers reach almost the same length and&gt;10 apical cones on the antenna.
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Masoala, noun in apposition, after the forest and peninsula of Masoala, the largest remaining area of lowland rainforest on
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, for which the species described here is the first recorded giant pillmillipede species (
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S of Ambodiforaha village
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; alt.
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buckets, littoral forest;
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leg.; coll. no. VS-2582;
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<emphasis id="B9622666FFA0E02A1EBBFD63832FFD07" bold="true" box="[189,334,664,690]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Description</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B9622666FFA0E02A1EECFD3C834BFD54" bold="true" box="[234,298,711,737]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Male</emphasis>
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BODY LENGTH. Length
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, width of thoracic shield
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(widest), height of thoracic shield
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(highest).
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COLORATION. Head, collum, thoracic shield and tergites dark brown to black. Grooves of thoracic shield greenish, anal shield lighter brown (
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). Antennae and legs green.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FFA0E02A1EBBFC578369FBB8" blockId="30.[189,1398,940,1037]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">HEAD. Eyes with more than 50 ommatidia. Antennae short, protruding back to leg 4. Length of antennomeres 1&gt;2&gt;3=4 =5&lt;6. A shallow groove present on antennomere 1, disc with 33/12 apical cones.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FFA0E02A1EBBFBCB8169FBFF" blockId="30.[189,776,1072,1098]" box="[189,776,1072,1098]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">GNATHOCHILARIUM AND MANDIBLE. Not dissected.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FFA0E02A1EBBFB9580DAFB1E" blockId="30.[187,1398,1134,1195]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">
STIGMATIC PLATES. First stigmatic plate triangular, apex well-rounded, slender, curved towards coxa. Hair most abundant on apical margin (
<figureCitation id="132DE6F1FFA0E02A1C45FB6A80CCFB1E" box="[579,685,1169,1195]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="31.[189,232,1752,1778]" captionTargetBox="[254,1326,269,1738]" captionTargetId="figure-142@31.[246,1341,265,1746]" captionTargetPageId="31" captionText="Fig. 11. Zoosphaerium masoala sp. nov., holotype (FMNH-INS 3195651). A. Left leg 9, posterior view. B. Right coxa 2 with gonopore, posterior view. C. Right coxa 1 with stigmatic plate, posterior view. D. Left anterior gonopod, anterior view. E. Left anterior gonopod, lateral view. F. Left anterior gonopod, posterior view. G. Right posterior telopod, posterior view. H. Right posterior telopod, anterior view. Abbreviations: as = apical spine; cl = claw; cr-t = crenulated teeth; cx= coxa; fe = femur; gp = gonopore; pof = postfemur; pref = prefemur; s-ps = sclerotized spots; sr = stridulation rib; st = stigmatic plate; syn = syncoxite; ta = tarsus; ti = tibia; vs = ventral spines. Roman numerals indicate telopoditomeres. Scale bars = 1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5075846" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5075846/files/figure.png" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Fig. 11C</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FFA0E02A1EBBF87D8055F852" blockId="30.[189,1399,1926,2023]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA0E02A1EBBF87D837BF815" bold="true" box="[189,282,1926,1952]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Fig. 10.</emphasis>
Scanning electron micrographs of the endoterga of midbody rings.
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA0E02A1A3BF87D8630F815" bold="true" box="[1085,1105,1926,1952]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">A</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="B9622666FFA0E02A1A67F87D8717F815" box="[1121,1398,1926,1952]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Zoosphaerium masoala</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2519B1DFFA0E02A1EBBF8518343F871" box="[189,290,1962,1988]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
, holotype (FMNH-INS 3195651).
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA0E02A1CDAF8528091F876" bold="true" box="[732,752,1961,1987]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">B</emphasis>
.
<taxonomicName id="4C1681F7FFA0E02A1D00F8518181F876" authority="Wesener &amp; Sagorny, 2021" authorityName="Wesener &amp; Sagorny" authorityYear="2021" box="[774,992,1961,1987]" class="Diplopoda" family="Arthrosphaeridae" genus="Zoosphaerium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Sphaerotheriida" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="spinopiligerum" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA0E02A1D00F8518181F876" box="[774,992,1961,1987]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Z. spinopiligerum</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2519B1DFFA0E02A1DE9F8518635F871" box="[1007,1108,1962,1988]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
, holotype (FMNH-INS 3119885). Scale bars = 100 µm.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B9622666FFA1E02B1EBBF9238376F947" bold="true" box="[189,279,1752,1778]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Fig. 11.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C1681F7FFA1E02B1F1BF9238051F947" authority="Wesener &amp; Sagorny, 2021" authorityName="Wesener &amp; Sagorny" authorityYear="2021" box="[285,560,1752,1778]" class="Diplopoda" family="Arthrosphaeridae" genus="Zoosphaerium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Sphaerotheriida" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="masoala" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA1E02B1F1BF9238051F947" box="[285,560,1752,1778]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Zoosphaerium masoala</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2519B1DFFA1E02B1C31F92280F2F946" box="[567,659,1753,1779]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
, holotype (FMNH-INS 3195651).
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA1E02B1A21F923865DF947" bold="true" box="[1063,1084,1752,1778]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">A</emphasis>
. Left leg 9, posterior view.
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA1E02B1EBAF90782B1F8A3" bold="true" box="[188,208,1788,1814]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">B</emphasis>
. Right coxa 2 with gonopore, posterior view.
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA1E02B1D06F9008172F8A0" bold="true" box="[768,787,1787,1813]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">C</emphasis>
. Right coxa 1 with stigmatic plate, posterior view.
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA1E02B1EBBF8E482B3F88C" bold="true" box="[189,210,1823,1849]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">D</emphasis>
. Left anterior gonopod, anterior view.
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA1E02B1C96F8E480C5F88C" bold="true" box="[656,676,1823,1849]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">E</emphasis>
. Left anterior gonopod, lateral view.
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA1E02B1A56F8E48603F88C" bold="true" box="[1104,1122,1823,1849]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">F</emphasis>
. Left anterior gonopod, posterior view.
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA1E02B1F7EF8B983EEF8E9" bold="true" box="[376,399,1858,1884]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">G</emphasis>
. Right posterior telopod, posterior view.
<emphasis id="B9622666FFA1E02B1D85F8B981FBF8E9" bold="true" box="[899,922,1858,1884]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">H</emphasis>
. Right posterior telopod, anterior view. Abbreviations: as = apical spine; cl = claw; cr-t = crenulated teeth; cx= coxa; fe = femur; gp = gonopore; pof = postfemur; pref = prefemur; s-ps = sclerotized spots; sr = stridulation rib; st = stigmatic plate; syn = syncoxite; ta = tarsus; ti = tibia; vs = ventral spines. Roman numerals indicate telopoditomeres. Scale bars = 1 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FF9EE0141EBBFEF2862CFE96" blockId="32.[189,1101,265,291]" box="[189,1101,265,291]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">PLEURITES. First pleurite extending slightly posteriorly in a long, thin process.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FF9EE0141EBBFEBC8660FED4" blockId="32.[189,1025,327,353]" box="[189,1025,327,353]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">COLLUM. Margins covered with a few short hairs, central part glabrous.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FF9EE0141EBBFE7F8107FE2B" blockId="32.[189,870,388,414]" box="[189,870,388,414]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">THORACIC SHIELD. Surface like those of tergites, glabrous.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FF9EE0141EBBFE3986B8FE69" blockId="32.[189,1241,450,476]" box="[189,1241,450,476]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">TERGITES. Smooth and glabrous, no small pits. Paratergites projecting slightly posteriorly.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FF9EE0141EBBFDFB872EFD36" blockId="32.[188,1399,511,643]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">
ENDOTERGUM. Inner section with numerous short spines and isolated bristles. Between marginal ridge and inner area a single row of sparse large, circular cuticular impressions, distance between impressions larger than their diameter. Marginal brim wavy towards inner area. Externally 1 or 2 rows of marginal bristles. Bristles scaly, of medium length, longest reaching slightly above tergite margin (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FF9EE0141EBBFD5C8167FCB2" blockId="32.[187,1398,679,776]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">ANAL SHIELD. Rounded, neither bell-shaped nor tapered, covered with numerous short setae. Ventral side of anal shield with two black locking carinae, located close to laterotergites. Anterior carina small and posterior carina 3 times as long as anterior carina.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FF9EE0141EBBFCD086FCFC3E" blockId="32.[189,1398,811,908]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">
LEGS. Leg 1 with 1 ventral spine, leg 2 with 24, leg 3 with 3 or 4. First two leg pairs without an apical spine, spine present on leg 3. Leg pairs 421 with 7 or 8 ventral spines and an apical spine. On leg 9, femur 2.4 and tarsus 4.2 times as long as wide. All podomeres with setae (
<figureCitation id="132DE6F1FF9EE0141A22FC8A86F1FC3E" box="[1060,1168,881,907]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="31.[189,232,1752,1778]" captionTargetBox="[254,1326,269,1738]" captionTargetId="figure-142@31.[246,1341,265,1746]" captionTargetPageId="31" captionText="Fig. 11. Zoosphaerium masoala sp. nov., holotype (FMNH-INS 3195651). A. Left leg 9, posterior view. B. Right coxa 2 with gonopore, posterior view. C. Right coxa 1 with stigmatic plate, posterior view. D. Left anterior gonopod, anterior view. E. Left anterior gonopod, lateral view. F. Left anterior gonopod, posterior view. G. Right posterior telopod, posterior view. H. Right posterior telopod, anterior view. Abbreviations: as = apical spine; cl = claw; cr-t = crenulated teeth; cx= coxa; fe = femur; gp = gonopore; pof = postfemur; pref = prefemur; s-ps = sclerotized spots; sr = stridulation rib; st = stigmatic plate; syn = syncoxite; ta = tarsus; ti = tibia; vs = ventral spines. Roman numerals indicate telopoditomeres. Scale bars = 1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5075846" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5075846/files/figure.png" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">Fig. 11A</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FF9EE0141EECFC54806AFC7C" blockId="32.[189,1398,943,1040]" box="[234,523,943,969]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">
<emphasis id="B9622666FF9EE0141EECFC54806AFC7C" bold="true" box="[234,523,943,969]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">Male sexual characters</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FF9EE0141EBBFC29865EFBBA" blockId="32.[189,1398,943,1040]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">
GONOPORE. Covered with a single undivided, rounded, apically membranous, basally sclerotized plate, covering ¼ of surface of coxa. Gonopore located basally on joint (
<figureCitation id="132DE6F1FF9EE0141DCEFC0E8653FBBA" box="[968,1074,1013,1039]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="31.[189,232,1752,1778]" captionTargetBox="[254,1326,269,1738]" captionTargetId="figure-142@31.[246,1341,265,1746]" captionTargetPageId="31" captionText="Fig. 11. Zoosphaerium masoala sp. nov., holotype (FMNH-INS 3195651). A. Left leg 9, posterior view. B. Right coxa 2 with gonopore, posterior view. C. Right coxa 1 with stigmatic plate, posterior view. D. Left anterior gonopod, anterior view. E. Left anterior gonopod, lateral view. F. Left anterior gonopod, posterior view. G. Right posterior telopod, posterior view. H. Right posterior telopod, anterior view. Abbreviations: as = apical spine; cl = claw; cr-t = crenulated teeth; cx= coxa; fe = femur; gp = gonopore; pof = postfemur; pref = prefemur; s-ps = sclerotized spots; sr = stridulation rib; st = stigmatic plate; syn = syncoxite; ta = tarsus; ti = tibia; vs = ventral spines. Roman numerals indicate telopoditomeres. Scale bars = 1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5075846" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5075846/files/figure.png" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">Fig. 11B</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA9FA74FF9EE0141EBBFBC88301FA95" blockId="32.[189,1399,1075,1312]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">
ANTERIOR TELOPODS. Harp with two stridulation ribs, mesal rib smaller than lateral one, both ribs well developed, located in mesal corner (
<figureCitation id="132DE6F1FF9EE0141C79FBAD808EFBC5" box="[639,751,1110,1136]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="31.[189,232,1752,1778]" captionTargetBox="[254,1326,269,1738]" captionTargetId="figure-142@31.[246,1341,265,1746]" captionTargetPageId="31" captionText="Fig. 11. Zoosphaerium masoala sp. nov., holotype (FMNH-INS 3195651). A. Left leg 9, posterior view. B. Right coxa 2 with gonopore, posterior view. C. Right coxa 1 with stigmatic plate, posterior view. D. Left anterior gonopod, anterior view. E. Left anterior gonopod, lateral view. F. Left anterior gonopod, posterior view. G. Right posterior telopod, posterior view. H. Right posterior telopod, anterior view. Abbreviations: as = apical spine; cl = claw; cr-t = crenulated teeth; cx= coxa; fe = femur; gp = gonopore; pof = postfemur; pref = prefemur; s-ps = sclerotized spots; sr = stridulation rib; st = stigmatic plate; syn = syncoxite; ta = tarsus; ti = tibia; vs = ventral spines. Roman numerals indicate telopoditomeres. Scale bars = 1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5075846" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5075846/files/figure.png" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">Fig. 11D</figureCitation>
). First podomere 1.1 times as wide as long. Second podomere process lobe-like and slightly curved, with rounded edges, protruding up to half of third podomere height, apically with sclerotized spots. Third podomere long, as long as first; cavity mesally with numerous sclerotized spots and three thin, sclerotized spines; one sclerotized spot located close to tip; laterally with up to 12 crenulated teeth. Podomeres 13 covered on both sides with numerous long, isolated hairs.
</paragraph>
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POSTERIOR TELOPODS. Movable finger with a well-rounded tip, tapering towards tip; hollowed-out inner margin without lobes but with 5 sclerotized spines, 2 located apically, 2 at midpoint and 1 basally (
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). Posterior aspect of movable finger with ca 14 small sclerotized teeth (
<figureCitation id="132DE6F1FF9EE0141A8DFA718699FA11" box="[1163,1272,1418,1444]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="31.[189,232,1752,1778]" captionTargetBox="[254,1326,269,1738]" captionTargetId="figure-142@31.[246,1341,265,1746]" captionTargetPageId="31" captionText="Fig. 11. Zoosphaerium masoala sp. nov., holotype (FMNH-INS 3195651). A. Left leg 9, posterior view. B. Right coxa 2 with gonopore, posterior view. C. Right coxa 1 with stigmatic plate, posterior view. D. Left anterior gonopod, anterior view. E. Left anterior gonopod, lateral view. F. Left anterior gonopod, posterior view. G. Right posterior telopod, posterior view. H. Right posterior telopod, anterior view. Abbreviations: as = apical spine; cl = claw; cr-t = crenulated teeth; cx= coxa; fe = femur; gp = gonopore; pof = postfemur; pref = prefemur; s-ps = sclerotized spots; sr = stridulation rib; st = stigmatic plate; syn = syncoxite; ta = tarsus; ti = tibia; vs = ventral spines. Roman numerals indicate telopoditomeres. Scale bars = 1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5075846" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5075846/files/figure.png" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">Fig. 11G</figureCitation>
). Movable finger slightly longer than fixed finger, the latter slender (4 times as long as wide), apically curved towards former. Fixed finger basally with a single spine, at margin with numerous sclerotized spots. First podomeres almost glabrous, movable and immovable finger covered on both sides with numerous long, isolated hairs, only tips of chela glabrous.
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<emphasis id="B9622666FF9EE0141EBBF9AE8379F9DA" bold="true" box="[189,280,1621,1647]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">Female</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B9622666FF9EE0141EBBF93F8390F96A" bold="true" box="[189,497,1732,1759]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">Distribution and ecology</emphasis>
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This species is currently known only from the vast lowland rainforests of the Masoala Peninsula on the east coast (
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).
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<emphasis id="B9622666FF9EE0141EBBF8A3834EF8C7" bold="true" box="[189,303,1880,1906]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">Remarks</emphasis>
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Despite several attempts, no DNA could be extracted from the male
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. Therefore, its degree of similarity to the two much larger females known and sequenced from the Masoala area (
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and
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) could not be assessed (see
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).
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