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Zoosphaerium villosum Wesener & Sierwald 2005
Creators
- 1. Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Section Myriapoda, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany.
- 2. Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Section Myriapoda, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany. & University of Bonn, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, D- 53121 Bonn, Germany.
Description
Zoosphaerium villosum Wesener & Sierwald, 2005 Material examined
MADAGASCAR – Toamasina • 1 ♂; Parc National de Zahamena, Tetezambatana forest, near jct of Nosivola and Manakambahiny Rivers; 17°44′35″ S, 48°43′46″ E; alt. 860 m; general collecting in camp, rainforest; 18–19 Feb. 2009; B.L. Fisher et al. leg.; coll. no. BLF 21973; CASENT 9068292.
RemarksAnother locality for this species (Fig. 13C), which appears to be common in northeastern Malagasy lowland rainforests, is added (cf Wesener et al. 2010b).
Notes
Published as part of Wesener, Thomas & Sagorny, Christina, 2021, Seven new giant pill-millipede species and numerous new records of the genus Zoosphaerium from Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae), pp. 1-48 in European Journal of Taxonomy 758 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.758.1423, http://zenodo.org/record/5075824
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CASENT
- Event date
- 2009-02-18
- Family
- Arthrosphaeridae
- Genus
- Zoosphaerium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- CASENT 9068292
- Order
- Sphaerotheriida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Wesener & Sierwald
- Species
- villosum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2009-02-18/19
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zoosphaerium villosum Wesener, 2005 sec. Wesener & Sagorny, 2021
References
- Wesener T., Bespalova I. & Sierwald P. 2010 b. Madagascar's living giants: discovery of five new species of endemic giant pill-millipedes from Madagascar (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Arthrosphaeridae: Zoosphaerium). African Invertebrates 51 (1): 133 - 161.