Entomologists from the United States and Germany have described seven new species of giant pill-millipedes belonging to the Malagasy genus Sphaeromimus. Sphaeromimus lavasoa (top right), Sphaeromimus andrahomana (bottom right) and color morphs of the previously known species Sphaeromimus musicus (left). Image credit: Wesener T et al. The giant pill-millipede genus Sphaeromimus, which is Latin for small ball animal, was first described by scientists...
