Procyliosoma tuberculatum westlandicum

Taxobox
name = "Procyliosoma tuberculatum westlandicum"
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Myriapoda
classis = Diplopoda
ordo = Sphaerotheriida
familia = Sphaerotheriidae
genus = "Procyliosoma"
species = "P. tuberculatum"
subspecies = "P. t. westlandicum"
trinomial = "Procyliosoma tuberculatum westlandicum"
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"Procyliosoma tuberculatum westlandicum" is a large pill millipede of the family Sphaerotheriidae, endemic to New Zealand.

Males have a width of 9 mm and a length of 17 mm, and females a width of 13 mm and length of 28 mm. Coloration is blackish-brown or black, chestnut or dark brown head, with the anterior margin black, and sometimes with a median triangular ochreous area immediately behind the anterior margin (larger than in "Procyliosoma tuberculatum tuberculatum").

They feed on decaying vegetation, and are widespread in Westland in the South Island of New Zealand.

References

* [http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/details.pl?pstrVol=DIPLOPODA;pstrTaxa=276;pstrChecklistMode=2 Australian Department of the Environment]
* [http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_84/rsnz_84_02_003640.html Royal Society of New Zealand]