Oxidus gracilis (C.L. Koch, 1847)

Kasatkin, D. G., 2024, Dorcadion semibruneum subsp. vlasenkoi Kasatkin 2020, ssp. n., Russian Entomological Journal 33 (2), pp. 265-266 : 266

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15298/10.15298
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13177650
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Oxidus gracilis (C.L. Koch, 1847)
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Oxidus gracilis (C.L. Koch, 1847) View in CoL

MATERIAL. 1 ♂, 4 juv. ( ZMUM), Moscow City, Main Botanical Garden, hothouse with tropical vegetation, 9.II.2024 ; 2 ♀♀, 5 juv. ( ZMUM), same place and hothouse, 9.II.2024 ; 2 juv. ( ZMUM), same place, hothouse with dry subtropical vegetation, 9.II.2024 ; 1 juv. ( ZMUM), same place, hothouse with orchids, 9.II.2024 , all K. Panina, A. Bokova and M. Potapov leg.

REMARK. This is certainly the most common and widespread species among the hot- or greenhouse Diplopoda ( Stoev et al., 2010) not only in and around Moscow City, but perhaps across entire Russia, naturalized on open grounds only in the Kanev Nature Reserve, Cherkassy Region, central Ukraine [ Chornyi, Golovatch, 1993] and along the Black Sea coast in southern Russia and Abkhazia [ Lignau, 1907, 1915; Chumachenko, 2016]. Zuev [2021] recorded O. gracilis both inside and next to a greenhouse at Stavropol, northern Caucasus.