Hothouse millipede Prosopodesmus panporus found in the wild for the first time!

Bob Mesibov in Australia has found a population of a species of millipede, Prosopodesmus panporus, only previously known from hothouses including Kew Gardens.  Bob says 'this unmistakable species was collected in rainforest on the Cape York Peninsula in tropical north Queensland. Because that rainforest area is remote and little-visited, and because 3 congeners are also found in tropical north Queensland, I think it likely that P. panporus is an Australian native.'

The paper is published in Zookeys
http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/3276/

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