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Lithobius (Ezembius) proximus Sseliwanoff 1878

  • 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

23. Lithobius (Ezembius) proximus Sseliwanoff, 1878

Terra typica: [Russia, Irkutsk Region] Irkutsk (Sseliwanoff 1878).

Lithobius proximus Sseliwanoff, 1878: 23 (♂ ♀).

Lithobius proximus — Sseliwanoff, 1881b: 10 (12 specimens: ♂ ♀); Zalesskaja, 1978: 125; Tuf, 2007: 64; Tuf et al., 2010: 11.

Lithobius (Ezembius) proximus Eason, 1986b: 58; Farzalieva & Esyunin, 2008: 939 (72 ♂♂, 85 ♀♀); Sergeeva, 2013: 530; Bukhkalo et al., 2014: 71 (430 specimens); Dyachkov, 2017b: 454 (4 ♂♂, 14 ♀♀, 3 juv.); Nefediev et al., 2017a: 116 (2 ♀♀, 3 juv.); 2017b: 218 (12 ♂♂, 13 ♀♀); 2018: 230 (12 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀); 2020a: 38 (3 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀); 2020b: 12 (1 subadult ♂, 1 ♀); Nefediev & Farzalieva, 2020: 188 (numerous specimens).

Lithobius porathi major — Zalesskaja, 1978: 126.

Previous records. Kazakhstan: East Kazakhstan Region —SW Altai Mts, Bukhtarma River Valley [Kz31] (Tuf 2007; Tuf et al. 2010).

Habitat records. “Woods” on 1000 m (Tuf 2007).

Remarks. This species is widespread from Russian Far East (incl. Sakhalin Is.), Siberia, European Russia (incl. Urals) (Zalesskaja 1978; Farzalieva & Esyunin 2008; Sergeeva 2013; Nefediev et al. 2017a, 2017b, 2020a; Nefediev & Farzalieva 2020), westward to Ukraine (Chornyi & Kosyanenko 2003; Kunah 2013) and Poland (Wytwer & Tajovský 2019).

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 page 170, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6145261

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References

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  • Sseliwanoff, A. V. (1881 b) Lithobiidae deposited in the Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Zapiski Akademii Nauk. St. Petersburg, 37 (1), 1 - 19. [in Russian]
  • Zalesskaja, N. T. (1978) Identification book of the lithobiomorph centipedes of the USSR (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). Nauka publ., Moscow, 212 pp. [in Russian]
  • Tuf, I. H. (2007) Diversity of selected taxa of invertebrates in the Altai (East Kazakhstan). Modern approaches to biodiversity protection in the context of steady development achievement of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Materials of International Kazakh-Czech Scientific Conference, Ust-Kamenogorsk, 2007, 56 - 64. [in Czech, summary in English]
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