A millipede from South Australia, rediscovered after its first specimen was collected in 1936 and described as a new genus, Colobothrix, in ZooKeys. Found on Kangaroo Island and Yorke Peninsula. News reported 27 October 2026.

News article: https://phys.org/news/2026-10-millipede-south-australia-rediscovered-years.html

Second image: sphaerotrichome cluster, scanning electron micrograph by Robert Mesibov: https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2026/a-millipede-from-south-1.jpg

Image: Ben Parslow, SAMA.

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