Tygarrup javanicus Attems, 1929

Nefediev, P. S., 2019, New records of geophilomorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) from natural and anthropogenic habitats of Siberia, Far Eastern Entomologist 380, pp. 23-28 : 24

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