Sphaeromimus musicus (de Saussure & Zehntner, 1897)

Wesener, Thomas, Le, Daniel Minh-Tu & Loria, Stephanie F., 2014, Integrative revision of the giant pill-millipede genus Sphaeromimus from Madagascar, with the description of seven new species (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae), ZooKeys 414, pp. 67-107 : 74

Sphaeromimus musicus (de Saussure & Zehntner, 1897) Figure 1A

Sphaeropoeus musicus de Saussure & Zehntner, 1897: pl. 4, fig. 1 a-e (first description)

Sphaeromimus musicus : de Saussure and Zehntner 1902: 75 (description); Jeekel 1999: 8 (list); Enghoff 2003: 618 (list); Wesener and Sierwald 2005: 564 (redescription); Wesener 2009: 131 (list); Wesener and VandenSpiegel 2009: 548 (morphological phylogenetic analysis); Wesener et al. 2010: 1185 (molecular phylogenetic analysis); Wesener 2014b: (morphological phylogenetic analysis).

Additional specimen records.

5 ♂ & ♀, ZFMK MYR2273, Madagascar, Province Toliara, PN Andohahela, Tsimelahy, 24°57.296'S, 046°37.214'E, 135 m, spiny forest, close to river, coll. Wesener & Schütte, 24.v.2007; 2 ♂, ZFMK MYR2276, PN Andohahela, Tsimelahy, 24°57.296'S, 046°37.214'E, 135 m, spiny forest, close to river, coll. Wesener & Schütte, 24.v.2007; 5 ♂ & ♀, FMNH-INS 56027, same data as previous; 7 ♂ & ♀, ZFMK MYR2274, Grotte Andrahomana, 24°51.006'S, 046°55.907'E, dry forest plateau, coll. Wesener & Schütte, 20.v.2007; 4 ♂ & ♀, FMNH-INS 56016, same data as previous; 6 ♂ & ♀, ZFMK MYR2279, PN Andohahela, Mangatsiaka, 24°58.051'S, 046°33.206'E, 90 m, spiny forest, coll. Wesener & Schütte, 23.v.2007; 5 ♂ & ♀, FMNH-INS 56008, same data as previous; 6 ♂ & ♀, FMNH-INS 7822, Province Antananarivo, Forêt de Analavelona, Antanimena, 12.5 km NW Andramoheza, 22.6783°S, 44.1917°E, 1050 m, coll. S. M. Goodman, 9-15.3.1998; 1 ♀, MNHN TW29, Madagascar, Province Toliara, Entree nº 1, 1927, envoi G. Petit, Madagascar, Caisse 7 (tuite de lemoir la caisse 6), Petit, 1926, Bords du Fiherenana, P de Tulear, 3°Envoi, most likely "Bords du Fiherenana", 23.01°S, 44.09°E; 1 ♂, MNHN TW120, Madagascar, Mission R. Decary, Fort Dauphin, Juin 1926, entree nº 17, 1927.

Localities. S. musicus is apparently widespread in the southern spiny forest ecosystem. Different colour morphs from the same locality (Fig. 1A) showed identical COI sequences (Fig. 20), while the intraspecific variation between two populations 35 km apart was 2%.