Centipedes (Chilopoda) from the Dagestan, northern Caucasus, Russia

Abstract

The centipede fauna of the Dagestan comprises at least 19 species from 12 genera, 9 families, and 4 orders; 14 species are new to the regional list, including new to the fauna of northern Caucasus: Bothriogaster signata (Kessler, 1874), genus Bothriogaster Sseliwanoff, 1879, family Himantariidae, and Lithobius (L.) erythrocephalus C.L. Koch, 1847; or to the Caucasian fauna: Dignathodon microcephalus (Lucas, 1846), and genus Dignathodon Meinert, 1870. The most of the species are illustrated.

An updated synthesis of the Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) of Asian Russia

“… Pachymerium ferrugineum – Titova 1969 : 166; Zalesskaja et al 1982 : 187; Ganin 1997 : 105, 112, 116, 146; Farzalieva 2008 : 61; Sergeeva 2013 : 530; Zuev 2016 : 36; Zuev and Evsyukov 2016 : 424; Bukhkalo et al 2014 : 73; Volkova 2016 : 673; Dyachkov 2018a : 252; Nefediev et al 2017a : 11; Dyachkov and Tuf 2019 : 26; Dyachkov 2020 : 79; 2022 : 71; 2023 : 1077; Dyachkov and Nedoev 2021 : 42; Dyachkov et al 2022 : 73; 2023 : 63; Dyachkov and Farzalieva 2023 : 228. …”

“… Strigamia cf. transsilvanica – Zuev and Evsyukov 2016 : 425; Nefediev et al 2018 : 237; Dyachkov 2018b : 255; Dyachkov et al 2022 : 75; Dyachkov and Zuev 2023 : 159. …”

“… Nefediev et al (2018) suggested the presence of a possible undescribed species similar in morphology to S. transsilvanica from Western Siberia, so that also the presence of S. transsilvanica in Western Siberia is doubtful. Doubtful are also the records from European Russia and Caucasus ( Zuev and Evsyukov 2016 ; Dyachkov et al 2022 ; Dyachkov and Zuev 2023 ), Eastern Kazakhstan ( Dyachkov 2018b ), Japan, and Taiwan ( Bonato et al 2012 ).…”

On some remarkable records of Chilopoda (Geophilomorpha, Lithobiomorpha) from Turkmenistan

“…Genus Dignathodon and D. microcephalus are new to the fauna of both Turkmenistan and Middle Asia. Mostly the Mediterranean Region(Simaiakis et al 2013;Zarei et al 2020;Dyachkov et al 2022).Remarks. Genus Henia and H. bicarinata are new to the fauna of both Turkmenistan and Middle Asia.…”

“…VY.Distribution. Mostly the Eastern Mediterranean Region(Bonato et al 2011;Chipman et al 2013;Dyachkov et al 2022).Remarks. The genus Clinopodes and C. escherichii are new to the fauna of both Turkmenistan and Middle Asia.…”