Spirobolus olympiacus Karsch, 1881

Wesener, Thomas, Enghoff, Henrik & Sierwald, Petra, 2009, Review of the Spirobolida on Madagascar, with descriptions of twelve new genera, including three genera of ' fire millipedes' (Diplopoda), ZooKeys 19 (19), pp. 1-128 : 120

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.19.221
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3791483
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scientific name	Spirobolus olympiacus Karsch, 1881
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Spirobolus olympiacus Karsch, 1881: 64 View in CoL

S. (Trigoniulus) olympiacus, de Saussure & Zehntner 1902: 129 View in CoL , list species name Trigoniulus olympiacus, Enghoff 2003: 624 , lists species name

Comments: the holotype is a female which was not studied. According to Karsch (1881), this species is 215 mm long, with 57 rings, and it was collected in Nosy Be, an island off northwest Madagascar. No Spirobolida species longer than 200 mm is currently known from Madagascar. Of large-bodied genera, both Aphistogoniulus (Wesen- er et al. 2009) and Colossobolus species (undescribed) can be found in Nosy Be.