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New records of millipedes (Diplopoda) from European Russia and Crimea
... In Russia, bristly millipedes (the order Polyxenida) are known to be represented by only a handful of species, in three genera and two families, Polyxenidae and Lophoproctidae. The eyed Polyxenidae contains the subcosmopolitan, chiefly Holarctic Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758), a species known from bisexual and/or, in harsher environments, parthenogenetic populations, and ranging across Europe to Russia's northwestern parts in the north (Karelia and the Leningrad Region) (Lokshina, 1969;Kime, Enghoff, 2011) to Donbass, Crimea, the Rostovon-Don Region and, surprisingly only a few records, the Western Caucasus in the south (Prisnyi, 2001;Short et al., 2020;Evsyukov et al., 2022;Golovatch, 2023); Polyxenus lankaranensis Short, Vahtera, Wesener et Golovatch, 2020, from Azerbaijan and Dagestan, NE Caucasus (Short et al., 2020); Polyxenus sp., a closer unidentified species recorded from the Maritime Province, Russia's Far East (Mikhaljova, 2004(Mikhaljova, , 2017; and Propolyxenus argentifer (Verhoeff, 1921), from Crimea, the Krasnodar and Stavropol provinces, and nearly throughout the remaining Caucasus, including the Hyrcanian parts of Azerbaijan and Iran (Short et al., 2020;Zuev, 2021). The blind Lophoproctidae comprises in the Russian fauna only a single species: Lophoproctus coecus Pocock, 1894, from Crimea, the Rostov-on-Don Region and across the entire Caucasus region, including the Hyrcanian part of Iran, and Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia (Short, 2015;Evsyukov et al., 2022). ...
... to North Ossetia -Alania, Kalmykia and Dagestan, Northern Caucasus in the south, and from near Minsk, central Belarus in the west to Bashkortostan, the Orenburg and Saratov regions in the east (Lokshina, 1969;Kime, Enghoff, 2017;Golovatch, 2023). The above new record is thus among the easternmost. ...
For each of the 534 species of the millipede order Chordeumatida known from Europe, available information on taxonomy, distribution and habitat is summarized, and the distribution in 50 × 50 km UTM/MGRS squares is shown on a map. Comparisons between Chordeumatida and the equally-sized order Julida are made with respect to distribution patterns and history of exploration.
Data on distribution of the seven species of the families Julidae and Nemasomatidae are clarified and provided by maps. Leptoiulus tigirek Mikhaljova, Nefediev, Nefedieva et Dyachkov, 2015 is recorded from Republic of Altai and East Kazakhstan for the first time, Orinisobates sibiricus (Gulĭka, 1963) is new for Irkutskaya oblast, and Pacifiiulus amurensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859) is firstly recorded from Buryatia. © 2018, Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences.
For each of the 593 species of the millipede order Julida known from Europe, available information on taxonomy, distribution and habitat is summarized, and the distribution in 50 × 50 km UTM squares is shown on a map.
The Polyxenidae in the fauna of the Crimeo-Caucasian region is represented by four species: Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758) (= P. lagurus caucasicus Lignau, 1924, syn. n.), Propolyxenus argentifer (Verhoeff, 1921) comb. n. (= P. trivittatus Verhoeff, 1941, = P. sokolowi Lignau, 1924, both syn. n.), a new species, Polyxenus lankaranensis sp. n., and an undescribed Polyxenus sp. The distributions of all these species in the region concerned are mapped, based on old and new records. A molecular phylogeny based on COI sequences is used to study the relationship within and among the genera Polyxenus and Propolyxenus from Western Europe to the southern Caucasus. The results highlight the presence of a number of undescribed species of Polyxenus across this region.
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