The millipede tribe Brachyiulini in the Caucasus (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)
Author
Vagalinski, Boyan
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2 Yurii Gagarin Street, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria
boyan_vagalinski@excite.com
Author
Golovatch, Sergei I.
Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1058.68628
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1058.68628
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Omobrachyiulus geniculatus (Lohmander, 1928)
Chromatoiulus geniculatus
Lohmander, 1928: 236-238, figs 12-14.
Chromatoiulus (Omobrachyiulus) geniculatus
: Lohmander, 1936: 129-131, figs 108-110;
Lang 1959
: 1791.
Omobrachyiulus geniculatus
:
Vagalinski and
Lazanyi
2018
: 97.
Material examined.
Georgia
:
1 ♂
(SMNG),
Mtskheta-Mtianeti
,
Stepantsminda
: mouth of
river Snotskali
,
42.6339°N
,
44.6258°E
,
1750 m
a.s.l.
,
07.X.2012
,
F. Walther
leg.
,
1 ♂
(SMNG),
Mtskheta-Mtianeti
,
Darial Gorge
at rkm 8/131,
42.7039°N
,
44.6264°E
,
1480 m
a.s.l.
,
10.VIII.2014
,
F. Walther
leg.
;
Russia
:
3 ♂♂
,
1 ♀
,
6 juv.
(ZMUM),
Karachay-Cherkess Republic
,
Teberda Nature Reserve
,
Kizgich Canyon
N of Arkhyz
, near a riverine,
Alnus
and
Betula
wet forests, under bark and stones, 1450-1500 a.s.l.,
5.VI.1985
, SIG leg.;
1 ♂
(ZMUM),
Chechen Republic
,
Assa Valley
, ca.
9 km
SSW of Muzhichi
,
800 m
,
Fagus
,
Alnus
,
Carpinus
etc. forest, in litter, under bark and stones,
15.VII.1986
, SIG leg.
Diagnosis.
A species of
Omobrachyiulus
differing from congeners by the following combination of opisthomere characters: basoposterior process in the shape of a strongly pronounced lobe forming a nearly right-angled corner at base, ending with a simple and smooth apical outgrowth with a blunt tip; anterior process shaped as a stout spine; mesomeroidal lobe strongly pronounced; solenomere simple, bent strongly caudad.
Previous records from the Caucasus.
Russia
, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, by Bolshoy Zelenchuk River (type locality), "Post Akssaut" [probably on Aksaut River] (
Lohmander 1936
); Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Bisinghi [Bezengi] Valley (
Vagalinski and
Lazanyi
2018
).
General distribution.
GRCA.
Remark.
The species is new to the fauna of Georgia.