Escaryus krivolutskiji Titova, 1973 *

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31. Escaryus krivolutskiji Titova, 1973 *

Escaryus krivolutskiji Titova 1973: 102.

Escaryus krivolutskiji - Kurcheva 1977: 45; Markelov and Mineeva 1981: 129; Ganin 1997: 121, 124, 126, 128.

Type localities.

Russia: Maritime krai: "Suputinsky zapovednik" = Ussuriysky Nature Reserve, ca 43°40'N, 132°32'E, and “Kangauz” = Anisimovka Village, ca 43°10'N, 132°47'E and "Kedrovaya Pad" = Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve, ca 43°05'N, 131°30'E, (all Titova 1973) (see Remarks).

Type series.

Holotype: male. Paratypes: 10 specimens, including 5 males and 5 females. Deposited in ZMMU (S. Golovatch and A. Schileyko, pers. comm., 13.II.2023 and XII.2023).

Diagnosis.

An Escaryus species with body length reaching ≥ 2 cm; clypeus without plagulae; labral arc relatively deep, with denticles short and obtuse; first maxillae with one pair of lappets; forcipular trochanteroprefemur and tibia with large bulges, femur and tarsungulum with small bulges; 45-49 leg-bearing segments; metasternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment trapezoid, approximately as long as wide; coxal pores on both ventral and lateral sides of coxopleura, the pair of largest pores close to inner edge of coxopleura; anal pores present.

Distribution.

Far East: Maritime krai ( Titova 1973; Kurcheva 1977; Markelov and Mineeva 1981; Ganin 1997, 2006). Outside Asian Russia: no records.

Remarks.

Titova (1973) indicated that the type series was from three localities ("Suputinsky zapovednik", “Kangauz”, and "Kedrovaya Pad"), but she did not state explicitly which is the locality of the holotype.