Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835)

Dyachkov, Yurii V., Zuev, Roman V. & Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A., 2022, Centipedes (Chilopoda) from the Dagestan, northern Caucasus, Russia, Ecologica Montenegrina 52, pp. 68-89 : 73-74

Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835)

Type locality: Arklee bei Regensburg [ Germany] ( Bonato et al. 2016) .

Figs 23–26 .

Geophilus ferrugineus – Sseliwanoff 1884: 77–80; Lignau 1903: 19; Muralewicz 1907: 338; 1927: 6. Geophilus (Pachymerium) ferrugineus – Muralewicz 1911: 9. Geophilus angustiventris Kessler 1874: 44 . Pachymerium ferrugineum – C. L. Koch 1847: 187; Muralewicz 1926: 41; Titova 1969: 166;

Zalesskaja et al. 1982: 187; Salinas 1990: 47; Volkova 2016: 673–674; Zuev 2016: 36; Korobushkin et al.

2016: 19–20; Zuev & Evsyukov 2016: 424–425.

Material. 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( ZMMU Rc 8219), Dagestan, Tarumovsky District, near Kochubey , swamp, under Tamarix , N44°23', E46°34', 07–10. VI .2021, coll. OM.

Distribution. A trans-Palaearctic species, introduced to Japan, North and South America ( Volkova 2016; Nefediev et al. 2017; Dyachkov & Tuf 2019). Widespread in Russia ( Zalesskaja et al. 1982; Volkova 2016). North Caucasus: Krasnodar and Stavropol (Zuev 2016) territories, and Dagestan (new).

Remarks. This species and genus Pachymerium are new to the fauna of the Dagestan.

Figures

Figures 23–26. Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835) (ZMUM; ♂), ventrally: 23 – forcipular segment; 24 – clypeus and labrum; 25 – 6th LBS; 26 – ultimate LBS and postpedal segments. Abbreviations: ap – paired anterior porefields, cl – chitin-line, ca – clypeal areas, ptb – posterior transverse pore band. Scale: 0.25 mm (23), 0.1 mm (24, 25), 0.5 mm (26).