Pachymerium ferrugineum (C. L. Koch, 1835 )

Zarei, Roghaieh, Rahimian, Hassan, Mirmonsef, Hassan & Bonato, Lucio, 2020, Geophilomorpha from Alborz Mountains and a checklist of Chilopoda from Iran, Zootaxa 4780 (1), pp. 132-146 : 136

Pachymerium ferrugineum (C. L. Koch, 1835)

Geophilus ferrugineum C. L. Koch, 1835 : (136) 2

Literature records. Brolemann (1921): 1♂, Rasht ( Gilan Province) (as Pachymerium caucasicum ). Attems (1951): Khoramabad ( Mazandaran Province) [“Chorramabad, Mazanderan ”] (as Pachymerium caucasicum ). Zapparoli (1986): 1 ex., Chalus ( Mazandaran Province); 1 ex., Kuhenjan ( Fars Province).

New records: 1♀, Abbass abad ( Mazandaran Province) ; 2♀, Tonekabon ( Mazandaran Province) ; 3♂, Razmian, Alamut Mountains ( Qazvin Province) ; 2♂, 1 ex., Pole zangoleh ( Mazandaran Province) ; 1♀, Khajeh kala (Mazan- daran Province ) ; 1♀, Chamestan ( Mazandaran Province) ; 1♂, Shemshak ( Tehran Province) ; 1♂, Sisangan (Mazan- daran Province ) .

Distribution: most of the Palaearctic.

Notes. Pachymerium caucasicum (Attems, 1903) , which was originally described under the genus Geophilus , was synonymized with Pachymerium ferrugineum by Bonato & Minelli (2014).