New records of millipedes (Diplopoda) from European Russia and Abkhazia, Caucasus

Abstract

Cisuralia in the east. Altogether, 30 species of Diplopoda were revealed, treated, and mapped. In addition, Golovatch & Matyukhin (2011) have recently provided random faunistic records of a number of diplopod species, largely those found in bird nests across European Russia south to the northern Caucasus. Finally, Golovatch (2013), andZuev (2014) reviewed the millipede faunas of the Rostov-on-Don and Stavropol regions, southern Russia,

New records of millipedes (Diplopoda) from European Russia and Crimea

“…Ommatoiulus sabulosus (Linnaeus, 1758) REMARKS. This very common and widespread, nearly pan-European species (Kime, Enghoff, 2017) ranges in Russia from Karelia, the Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov, Vologda and Kirov regions in the north to the Tula Region in the south, and from the Kaliningrad Region in the west, through middle Volga regions, to Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and the Chelyabinsk Region (southern Urals) in the east (Lokshina, 1969;Golovatch, 2021).…”

“…This species is common throughout Europe, introduced to western Siberia and North America. In European Russia, it is very common in broadleaved forests and parklands south of the taiga belt, often synanthropic (Lokshina, 1969;Kime, Enghoff, 2011;Golovatch, 2021). REMARKS.…”

“…Even though the millipede fauna of the Eastern European, or Russian, Plain can boast to be pretty well known since the monograph by Lokshina (1969), several contributions have since allowed to considerably refine their taxonomy and distributions (e.g., Kime, Enghoff, 2011, 2017, 2021Volkova, 2018;Short et al, 2020;Golovatch, 2021). This can be further advanced using the rather abundant diplopod material accumulated in my hands over the last few years, all treated below and deposited in the РЕЗЮМЕ.…”