The giant pill-millipedes of Madagascar: revision of the genus Zoosphaerium (Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida)
Author
Wesener, Thomas
Author
Wägele, Johann-Wolfgang
Lower Invertebrates, Museum Alexander Koenig ZFMK, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn (Germany) twesener @ uni-bonn. de
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Zoosystema
2008
30
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5
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5391729
1638-9387
5391729
Zoosphaerium lambertoni
(
Brolemann, 1922
)
Sphaerotherium
(
Globotherium
)
lambertoni
Brolemann, 1922: 23
, figs 10-13 (not seen).
Zoosphaerium lambertoni
–
Jeekel 1999: 13
(lists species name). —
Enghoff 2003: 20
(lists species name).
REMARKS
This species seems to be closely related to
Zoosphaerium arborealis
. The type was stored by
Brolemann (1922)
at the Académie malgache, an institution that does no longer exist. Some of the material of the former Académie malgache is now stored in the zoological collection at Tsimbazawa,
Antananarivo
,
Madagascar
. It is unclear, if the
holotype
and only known individual of
Z. lambertoni
still exists in this collection. Even if it is lost,
Zoosphaerium lambertoni
(Broelemann, 1922)
is not listed as a
nomen dubium
, because we have high-quality drawings provided by Brolemann and a locality (“environs de Tanarive”;
Fig. 13
), which will perhaps allow the collection and determination of a
neotype
.