Hirudisoma roseum (Victor, 1839)

Korobushkin, Daniil I., Semenyuk, Irina I. & Tuf, Ivan H., 2016, An annotated checklist of the Chilopoda and Diplopoda (Myriapoda) of the Abrau Peninsula, northwestern Caucasus, Russia, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 7308-7308 : 7308

Hirudisoma roseum (Victor, 1839)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: IIS; Sampling: Hand; individualCount: 6; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Krasnodar; locality: {15} ; verbatimCoordinates: 44°45'02''N, 37°30'05'' E; 273; Event: eventDate: 06/2011 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: IIS; Sampling: Hand; individualCount: 2; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Krasnodar; locality: {16} ; verbatimCoordinates: 44°44'27''N, 37°29'53'' E; 295; Event: eventDate: 06/2011

Notes

The species distribution covers southern Russia, Abkhazia, Georgia, north-western Azerbaijan and eastern Turkey ( Golovatch et al. 2015). H. roseum is known as a typical leaf litter dweller. In the Abrau Peninsula, some individuals were collected from the compressed FH layer densely colonized by saprotrophic mycelium. This may be due to the altered, siphon-like mouthparts of Hirudisomatidans, which are presumably used for uptaking fluid food (e.g. hyphal contents) ( Read and Enghoff 2009).