Abstract
This study aimed to determine whether the variation responsible for breaking Rensch's Rule when Sexual Size Dimorphism (SSD) increased with body size was due to male-biased or female-biased variation by studying a sex-based set of morphological characters. Variation in female volume based on length and width measurements was associated with the SSD in the forest millipede genus Centrobolus. There was a significant positive correlation between SSD and female size (r=0.56, Z score=2.76, n=22, p
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