マダガスカルの博物館"ラ・スペコラ"が1989/1991年に採集したミリペッドについて、3種の新種のジャイアントピルミリペッド(Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae)の記述を交えて紹介しています

The millipedes collected by the Museum "La Specola" on Madagascar 1989/1991, with the description of three new species of giant pill-millipedes (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae).

• Thomas Wesener
• Pooja Avinipully Anilkumar

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A large collection of millipedes (Diplopoda) from Madagascar, belonging to the Museum "La Specola" in Florence, Italy were investigated. The collection includes three new species of the giant pill-millipede genus Pocock, 1895 which are described here as Wesener, , Anilkumar & Wesener, , and Anilkumar & Wesener, , all belonging to the species group. The latter two are currently only known from a single site. Other specimens belonging to eight orders (Polyxenida, Sphaerotheriida, Polyzoniida, Siphonophorida, Chordeumatida, Polydesmida, Spirobolida, and Spirostreptida) are listed. Three tropical tramp species, (Butler, 1876), Gervais, 1847, and (Attems, 1898) are recorded for the first time from Madagascar. New locality data is provided for (Butler, 1872), Wesener & Sierwald, 2005, (de Saussure & Zehntner, 1897), (de Saussure & Zehntner, 1897), (Pocock, 1894), Wesener, 2009, Wesener, 2009, Wesener, 2009, Wesener, 2009, (Karsch, 1881), and (de Saussure & Zehntner, 1901).

Thomas Wesener, Pooja Avinipully Anilkumar.