Escaryus polygonatus Titova, 1973 *

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34. Escaryus polygonatus Titova, 1973 *

Escaryus polygonatus Titova 1973: 98.

Escaryus polygonatus - Kurcheva 1977: 45; Markelov and Mineeva 1981: 130; Ganin 1997: 121, 124, 126, 128; 2006: 501.

Type localities.

Russia: Maritime krai: "Suputinsky zapovednik" = Ussuriysky Nature Reserve, ca 43°40'N, 132°32'E, and "Kedrovaya Pad" = Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve, ca 43°05'N, 131°30'E, (both Titova 1973).

Type series.

Holotype: male. Paratypes: 17 specimens, including 9 males and 8 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 ≥ 2.8 cm; clypeus with small plagulae; labral arc relatively deep, with denticles short and obtuse; first maxillae with one pair of lappets; forcipular trochanteroprefemur, femur, and tibia with small bulges; forcipular tarsungulum without denticle; 39 leg-bearing segments; metasternites with relatively sparse setae; metasternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment trapezoid, ~ 1.5 × as long as wide; coxal pores of different size, on both ventral and lateral sides of coxopleura; anal pores present.

Distribution.

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

Remarks.

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