Aphistogoniulus aridus Wesener, 2009

Wesener, Thomas, 2024, Five new species and numerous locality records of Spirobolida millipedes from Madagascar (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae), Zootaxa 5529 (3), pp. 461-486 : 478

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5529.3.3

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14022742

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scientific name

Aphistogoniulus aridus Wesener, 2009
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Material examined. 1 M, ZFMK-MYR886 , Madagascar, Province Toliara, Ranobe , spiny forest, 23°00.568’ S, 043°36.604’ E, coll. Martina Petru, May 2011; 3 juveniles GoogleMaps , ZFMK-MYR887 , same data as previous; 1 M, 2 F GoogleMaps , ZFMK-MYR888 , Madagascar, Province Toliara, Ifaty , spiny forest, 23°07.368’ S, 43°37.081’ E, coll. Martina Petru, May 2011 GoogleMaps .

Remarks. The new localities are more than 350 km NW of the type locality. Morphologically, the specimens are identical to the type series—unfortunately no molecular data is available for the type locality, Andohahela. A. aridus could be one of the widespread spiny forest species, such as the giant pill-millipedes Zoosphaerium libidinosum ( de Saussure & Zehntner, 1897) and Sphaeromimus musicus ( de Saussure & Zehntner, 1897) .

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