Strigamia pusilla (Sseliwanoff, 1884)

Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Bonato, Lucio, 2024, An updated synthesis of the Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) of Asian Russia, ZooKeys 1198, pp. 17-54 : 17

16. Strigamia pusilla (Sseliwanoff, 1884)

Scolioplanes pusillus Sseliwanoff 1884: 92.

Scolioplanes pusillus - Attems 1929: 224.

Scolioplanes perkeo Verhoeff 1935: 19 (synonymy by Dobroruka 1955: 202).

Scolioplanes pseudopusillus Loksa 1962: 857 (synonymy by Zalesskaja et al. 1982: 190).

Strigamia pusillus - Zalesskaja et al. 1982: 189; Volkova 2016: 675.

Strigamia pusilla - Farzalieva 2008: 64; Bonato et al. 2012: 18; Tuf and Kupka 2015: 110; Poloczek et al. 2016: 117; Tuf and Tajovsky 2016: 47; Nefediev et al. 2017c: 223; 2018: 237; Nefediev 2019: 25; Dyachkov and Farzalieva 2023: 229.

Type locality.

Russia: Moscow oblast: "Zaraysk, Ryazanskoy Gubernii" ( Sseliwanoff 1884) = Zaraysk city, 54°45'N, 38°53'E.

Type series.

Syntypes: 11 specimens, including 4 males and 7 females. Deposited in ZISP.

Diagnosis.

A species of Strigamia with forcipular tarsungula not surpassing the anterior margin of the head; basal denticle of forcipular tarsungulum relatively short, pointed, and with straight outlines; internal and external margins of forcipular tarsungulum gradually converging through the entire length; 33-39 leg-bearing segments; metasternites of the anterior part of the trunk without a mid-longitudinal sclerotized stripe; ultimate leg-bearing segment with distinct intercalary pleurites and metasternite as long as wide or longer than wide.

Distribution.

Western Siberia: Sverdlovsk oblast ( Zalesskaja et al. 1982; Farzalieva 2008), Altai krai ( Nefediev et al. 2018; Nefediev 2019), and Republic of Altai ( Nefediev et al. 2017c). Eastern Siberia: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) ( Nefediev 2019). Outside Asian Russia: westwards to Central Europe ( Zalesskaja et al. 1982; Bonato et al. 2012; Tuf and Tajovsky 2016; Volkova 2016), and southwards to Northern Mongolia ( Poloczek et al. 2016; Dyachkov and Farzalieva 2023).