Geophilus orientalis Sseliwanoff, 1881 *

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6. Geophilus orientalis Sseliwanoff, 1881 *

Geophilus orientalis Sseliwanoff 1881: 4.

Geophilus orientalis - Sseliwanoff 1884: 80; Attems 1903a: 45; 1903b: 235; 1929: 329.

Type locality.

Russia: Khabarovsk krai: "Nikolaevsk na Amure" ( Sseliwanoff 1881) = Nikolayevsk-on-Amur city, 53°8'N, 140°42'E.

Type series.

Holotype: male. Deposited in ZISP.

Diagnosis.

A species of Geophilus with head slightly longer than wide; forcipular coxosternite with short and wide denticles; all forcipular articles with small denticles, except the tarsungulum; 39 leg-bearing segments; metasternite of ultimate leg-bearing segment longer than wide, only slightly narrowing backwards; numerous coxal pores, on the ventral and lateral sides of coxopleura; anal pores present.

Distribution.

Far East: Khabarovsk krai ( Sseliwanoff 1881, 1884). Outside Asian Russia: no records.

Remarks.

The species was originally described under the genus Geophilus , but its taxonomic position is considered uncertain since Attems (1929). The few morphological characters reported in the descriptions and keys by Sseliwanoff (1881, 1884) do not allow it to be assigned confidently to one of the known genera.