An updated synthesis of the Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) of Asian Russia Author Dyachkov, Yurii V. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9256-9306 Altai State University, Lenin Avenue, 61, 656049, Barnaul, Russia & Tomsk State University, Lenin Avenue, 36, 634050, Tomsk, Russia & Western Caspian University, Istiglaliyyat Street, 31, Baku, Azerbaijan dyachkov793@mail.ru Author Bonato, Lucio https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8312-7570 Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita di Padova, via U. Bassi 58 b, 35131 Padova, Italy text ZooKeys 2024 2024-04-23 1198 17 54 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1198.119781 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1198.119781 1313-2970-1198-17 BDC5B2CD1BB442AE8672E57CC0FBBF6F 9A0A0A5CD22451C7ADAE5C8460C568DC 28. Escaryus hirsutus Titova 1973 * Escaryus hirsutus Titova 1973 : 96. Escaryus hirsutus - Molodova 1973 : 67; Kurcheva 1977 : 45; Ganin 1997 : 134. Type locality. Russia: Sakhalin oblast: "O-v Sakhalin, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, gora Chekhova" ( Titova 1973 ) = Chekhova Mt., near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk city, ca 47°00'N , 142°50'E . Type series. Holotype: female. Paratypes: 10 specimens, including 5 males and 5 females. Deposited in ZMMU (S. Golovatch and A. Schileyko, pers. comm., 13.II.2023 and XII.2023). Diagnosis. An Escaryus species with body length reaching ≥ 2.5 cm; clypeus with large plagulae; labral arc relatively deep, with denticles long and obtuse; first maxillae with one pair of lappets; all forcipular articles with large bulges; 37-39 leg-bearing segments; metasternites with relatively dense setae; metasternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment almost rectangular, ~ 1.5 x as long as wide; coxal pores on both ventral and lateral sides of coxopleura; anal pores present. Distribution. Far East: Sakhalin oblast (Sakhalin Isl.) ( Titova 1973 ; Molodova 1973 ; Kurcheva 1977 ; Ganin 1997 ). Outside Asian Russia: no records.