Geophilus sibiricus Stuxberg, 1876 *

Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Bonato, Lucio, 2024, An updated synthesis of the Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) of Asian Russia, ZooKeys 1198, pp. 17-54 : 17

9. Geophilus sibiricus Stuxberg, 1876 *

Geophilus sibiricus Stuxberg 1876a: 31.

Geophilus sibiricus - Stuxberg 1876b: 315; Sseliwanoff 1884: 90; Attems 1903a: 45; 1903b: 235; 1929: 329.

Type locality.

Russia: Krasnoyarsk krai: “Krasnojarsk” ( Stuxberg 1876b) = Krasnoyarsk city, 56°0'N, 92°53'E.

Type series.

Syntypes: 3 females. Depository unknown.

Diagnosis.

A species of Geophilus with head ~ 1.2 × as long as wide; tarsungulum without basal denticle; 57-59 leg-bearing segments; more than a dozen coxal pores on each coxopleuron, both on the ventral and lateral sides; pretarsus of ultimate leg pair claw-like; anal pores absent.

Distribution.

Eastern Siberia: Krasnoyarsk krai ( Stuxberg 1876b). Outside Asian Russia: no records.

Remarks.

The species was originally described under the genus Geophilus , but its taxonomic position was considered uncertain since Attems (1929). The few morphological characters reported in the descriptions by Stuxberg (1876a, 1876b) do not allow to confidently assign it to one of the known genera.