Millipedes of the order Chordeumatida (Diplopoda) from the Russian Far East and Siberia in the collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark Author Mikhaljova, E. V. text Far Eastern Entomologist 2019 2019-01-09 374 1 9 http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.374.1 journal article 10.25221/fee.374.1 2713-2196 7165031 4467F525-C0C9-46E8-8059-C2B651A0A2FE Underwoodia kurtschevae Golovatch, 1980 MATERIAL. Russia : Primorskii krai (southern): Shkotovskii District , 5 km NE of Mt. Pidan (Livadijskaya), Pryamoi Kluch river valley, 320–350 m , 43,111° N 132,729° E , mixed forest, leaf litter, 15–16.V 2015 , 1 male , 7 females ( ZMUC ), leg . A. Hansen, M. Justesen, A. Solodovnikov; Shkotovskii District, NE slopes of Mt. Pidan (Livadijskaya), Pryamoi Kluch river source, 500–700 m , 43,089° N 132,717° E, mixed/fir forest, leaf litter, 16–17. V 2015 , 1 female ( ZMUC ), leg. A. Hansen , M. Justesen, A. Solodovnikov; Khabarovskii krai (southern): Sikhote-Alin (Central) range, upper course of River Ko , 47,074° N 136,478° E , 700–800 m , fir-birch forest, wet leaf litter, 23–25. V 2015, 9 females ( ZMUC ), leg. A. Hansen , M. Justesen, A. Solodovnikov. DISTRIBUTION. Russia : Far East (Amurskaya oblast, Jewish Autonomous Region, Primorskii krai, southern half of Khabarovskii krai including Bolshoy Shantar Island , Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, Moneron Island , Kurile Islands: Kunashir, Shikotan, Zelyonyi, Iturup, Urup, Chirpoi, Ketoi); North Korea . REMARKS. This species is characterized by parthenogenesis, males being extremely rare. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am most grateful to all persons who collected material for the present study. Dr. H.Enghoff has kindly provided access to material housed at the Natural History Museum of Denmark , Copenhagen, Denmark . Gerstfeldt, G. 1859. Ueber einige zum Theil neue Arten Platoden, Anneliden, Myriapoden und Crustaceen Sibiriens, namentlich seines östlichen Theiles und des Amur-Gebietes. Mémoires des Savants étrangers de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint Péters- bourg , 8: 260–296. Golovatch, S. I. 1978 . A new family of East Asiatic Chordeumida ( Diplopoda ). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal , 57(7): 1008–1011. [In Russian with English summary] Haase, E. 1880. Zur Kenntnis der sibirischen Myriаpoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger , III(55): 223–225. Mikhaljova, E. V. 2004 . The millipedes ( Diplopoda ) of the Asian part of Russia . Pensoft , Sofia-Moscow, 292 pp. Mikhaljova, E. V. 2016 . New species and new records of millipedes ( Diplopoda ) from the Asian part of Russia . Far Eastern Entomologist , 316: 1–25. Mikhaljova, E. V. 2017 . The millipede fauna ( Diplopoda ) of the Asian part of Russia . Dal- nauka, Vladivostok, 336 pp. [In Russian] Shear, W.A. 1992. Golovatchia , new genus , and Golovatchiidae , new family , from the Far East of the Russian Republic, with a comment on Hoffmaneumatidae ( Diplopoda, Chordeumatida). Myriapodologica , 2(10): 63–72. Shear, W.A., Tanabe T. & Tsurusaki N. 1997. Japanese chordeumatid millipeds. IV. The new genus Japanoparvus ( Diplopoda , Chordeumatida , Hoffmaneumatidae ). Myriapodologica, 4(11): 89–99.