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Issue: Vol. 5437 No. 3: 15 Apr. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.7
Page range: 424-432
Abstract views: 10
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A lesser giant millipede from Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae)

Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Universitetsparken 15; DK-2100 København Ø
Myriapoda taxonomy new species size Afrotropical

Abstract

Archispirostreptus microgigas sp. nov. is described, based on a specimen from Tanzania, and compared with its congeners, especially A. gigas (Peters, 1855) and A. divergens Krabbe & Enghoff, 1978 which may be the closest relatives of the new species, based on a potential synapomorphy (a rounded lobe on the gonopod telopodite).

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