Biodiversität und Biogeographie der Diplopoden von Madagaskar

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Johann Wolfgang Wägele
• Subject Area: Systematics and Morphology (Zoology)
• Term: from 2007 to 2010
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 34220593

• Final Report Year: 2010

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

Publications

• (2008). Pachybolini - a tribe of giant Afrotropical millipedes: arguments for monophyly and the description of a new genus from Madagascar (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Pachybolidae). Invertebrate Systematics, 22: 37-53
  Wesener, T., Enghoff, H. & J.-W. Wägele
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1071/IS07008)
• (2008). The giant pill-millipedes of Madagascar: revision of the genus Zoosphaerium (Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida). Zoosystema, 30 (1): 5-85
  Wesener, T. & J.-W. Wägele
  
• (2009). A first phylogenetic analysis of Giant Pill- Millipedes (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida), a new model Gondwanan taxon, with special emphasis on island gigantism. Cladistics 25: 545-573
  Wesener, T. & van den Spiegel, D.
  
• (2009). Diversity, Phylogeny and Biogeography of the millipedes from Madagascar [in German, title translated]. Koenigiana 3 (2); 57-66
  Wesener, T.
  
• (2009). Review of the Spirobolida on Madagascar, with descriptions of twelve new genera, including three genera of 'Fire Millipedes' (Diplopoda). ZooKeys 19: 1-128
  Wesener, T., Enghoff, H. & P. Sierwald
  
• (2009). Revision of the endemic giant fire millipedes of Madagascar, genus Aphistogoniulus (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae). International Journal of Myriapodology 3: 15-52
  Wesener, T., Enghoff, H., Hoffman, R. L., Wägele, J.-W. & P. Sierwald
  
• (2009). Revision of the millipede subfamily Spiromiminae, a Malagasy group with Indian connections? (Diplopoda Spirobolida Pachybolidae). Tropical Zoology 22 (1): 71-120
  Wesener, T. & Enghoff, H.
  
• (2009). Unexplored richness: discovery of 31 new species of Giant Pill-Millipedes endemic to Madagascar, with a special emphasis on microendemism (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida). Zootaxa, 2097: 1-134
  Wesener, T.