New records of geophilomorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) from natural and anthropogenic habitats of Siberia
Author
Nefediev, P. S.
text
Far Eastern Entomologist
2019
2019-04-02
380
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http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.380.4
journal article
10.25221/fee.380.4
2713-2196
7165124
81885FEB-18E7-469E-B4DA-8AF3DB146A86
Tygarrup javanicus
Attems, 1929
MATERIAL.
Russia
:
Altaiskii
krai
:
Barnaul
,
Yuzhnyi
,
South Siberian Botanical Garden
, hothouse,
18.V 2017
,
1 ♀
, leg.
P.S. Nefediev.
DISTRIBUTION. Being East Asian in origin, this species inhabits from the
Seychelles
through southeast Asia to the Hawaiian Islands, also introduced to anthropogenic habitats,
i.e. hothouses and urban sites, in European countries, such as
Great Britain
,
Austria
,
Germany
,
Slovakia
and the
Czech Republic
(Tuf
et al
., 2018).
REMARKS. Both the genus
Tygarrup
Chamberlin, 1912
and the species
T
.
javanicus
are formally new to
Russia
, as well as the family
Mecistocephalidae
is recorded in Siberia for the first time. Now
T
.
javanicus
has been found introduced to a hothouse of the South Siberian
Botanical Garden.
Family
Geophilidae Cook, 1896