The goal of this study was to look into the sexual size dimorphism of Centrobolus titanophilus. In Diplopoda, one sex was larger than the other, demonstrating reversed sexual size dimorphism (SSD). The SSD of C. titanophilus was derived using data collected in South Africa's Cape Province. C. titanophilus had an average size of 285 41.875 mm (n=8), with the smaller sex measuring 276.6667 40.6667 mm (n = 5) and the bigger sex at 290 42.6 mm (n = 3). The absolute size (x=418.3596 mm3; y=359.3327 mm3) was estimated and utilised to calculate the gender difference based on tergite width differences (t=1.85901, p=0.084172, n=8). C. titanophilus had an SSD ratio of 1.164268, which was different from 1 (t=2.70801, p=0.012845, n=8).
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Mark Cooper
School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa
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