This study reveals the diversity of Arthrosphaera in the Southern Western Ghats, suggesting conservation needs for these millipedes.
In the phylum Arthropoda, millipedes are categorised as Diplopoda. The goal of the current study was to investigate the diversity and distribution of pill millipedes, which are abundant in the KMTR of Tamil Nadu's Southern Western Ghats. A total number of four pill millipede samples Arthrosphaera brandtii (Humbert, 1865), Arthrosphaera dalyi (Pocock, 1895), Arthrosphaera hendersoni (Pocock, 1895), Arthrosphaera magna (Attems, 1936) belonging to order Sphaerotheriida and family belongs to Arthrospharidae also of four genera were annotate from the forest and tropical of KMTR of Southern Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu. According to these findings, pill millipede conservation and the checklist would be greatly improved by additional research. For precise identification and keys, the current study defined the morphological characteristics of each millipede.
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