Published February 18, 2022 | Version v1
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Hessebius plumatus Zalesskaja 1978

  • 1. Altai State University, Lenin Avenue, 61, Barnaul 656049 Russia.
  • 2. Perm State University, Bukireva Street, 15, Perm 614600 Russia.
  • 3. Palacky University Olomouc, Slechtitelu 27, Olomouc 77900 Czech Republic.

Description

17. Hessebius plumatus Zalesskaja, 1978

Type locality: [Kyrgyzstan, Jalal-Abad Region] Arslanbob [Kg17] (Zalesskaja 1978).

Hessebius plumatus Zalesskaja, 1978: 47 (♂ ♀).

Hessebius plumatus — Bragina, 2012: 141; 2016: 109; Bragina et al., 2020: 30; Dyachkov, 2020: 82 (6 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀).

Hessebius cf. plumatus Dyachkov, 2019: 14 (1 ♀).

Previous records. Kazakhstan: Almaty Region —Küngöy Ala-Too Mt. Range, between Kolsay-1 and Kolsay-2 lakes [Kz18] (Dyachkov 2019) and Kostanay Region—Naurzum Nature Reserve [Kz52, Kz52a] (Bragina 2012, 2016; Bragina et al. 2020). Tajikistan: Khatlon Region —Hazrateshoh Mt. Range, Mu'minobod [Tj1], Karatau Mt. Range, Yavan [Tj5], Aruktau Mt. Range, vicinity of Sambuli Village [Tj7], and Districts of Republican Subordination— Ghissar Mt. Range [Tj8a], Romit Village [Tj9], Karateginsky Mt. Range [Tj9a], Poyonob Village [Tj10], Obikandak River Valley [Tj12]; uncertain locality—“Fayzabad” [Tj19*?] (Zalesskaja 1978; Dyachkov 2020). Kyrgyzstan: Jalal-Abad Region—Fergana Mt. Range, Arslanbob [Kg17] (Zalesskaja 1978).

Habitat records. “Near waterfall”, “pasture” (Zalesskaja 1978); Stipa lessingiana steppe (Bragina et al. 2020); dry stony shiblyak shrubland with rocks on 660–980 m; wet stony shiblyak shrubland with rocks on 1300–1370 m; stony meadow with rocks on 1250–1540 m; Medicágo; virgin soil (Dyachkov 2020); stony mountain tundra on 3110–3160 m (Dyachkov 2019).

Remarks. After comparison material of H. plumatus (Dyachkov 2020; unpublished data) with the specimen of H. cf. plumatus (mentioned in Dyachkov 2019), we consider this specimen as H. plumatus. The main morphological characters of this specimen correspond well to the original description by Zalesskaja (1978), a sole difference is in 3+3 gonopodal spurs (2+2 according to the original description); it can be attributed to intraspecific variability.

H. plumatus is known from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan only.

Notes

Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh. & Tuf, Ivan H., 2022, An annotated checklist of centipedes (Chilopoda) of Middle Asian countries, part 1. Lithobiomorpha, pp. 151-188 in Zootaxa 5100 (2) on pages 167-168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6145261

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Lithobiidae
Genus
Hessebius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lithobiomorpha
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Zalesskaja
Species
plumatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Hessebius plumatus Zalesskaja, 1978 sec. Dyachkov, Farzalieva & Tuf, 2022

References

  • Zalesskaja, N. T. (1978) Identification book of the lithobiomorph centipedes of the USSR (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). Nauka publ., Moscow, 212 pp. [in Russian]
  • Bragina, T. M. (2012) The inventory of the invertebrate fauna of Naurzum Reserve. Material II International scientific conference " Biodiversity of Asian steppes ", Kostanay, 2012, 140 - 145. [in Russian]
  • Bragina, T. M. (2016) Soil macrofauna (invertebrates) of Kazakhstanian Stipa lessingiana dry steppe. Hacquetia, 15 (2), 105 - 112. https: // doi. org / 10.1515 / hacq- 2016 - 0017
  • Bragina, T. M., Dyachkov, Yu. V. & Farzalieva, G. Sh. (2020) New data on the centipede fauna (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) of Kostanay region, Kazakhstan. Far Eastern Entomologist, 406, 27 - 32. https: // doi. org / 10.25221 / fee. 406.4
  • Dyachkov, Yu. V. (2020) New data on the centipede (Chilopoda) fauna from Tajikistan. Ecologica Montenegrina, 36, 78 - 86. https: // doi. org / 10.37828 / em. 2020.36.6
  • Dyachkov, Yu. V. (2019) New data on lithobiomorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Anopsobiidae, Henicopidae, Lithobiidae) from Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta, 28 (1), 8 - 20. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / arthsel. 28.1.02