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Caucaseuma lohmanderi Strasser 1970

  • 1. University of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology, Institute of Zoology, Studentski Trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. & Serbian Biospeleological Society, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.

Description

Caucaseuma lohmanderi Strasser, 1970

Figs 1, 7F

Caucaseuma lohmanderi Strasser, 1970: 200, figs 1–6.

Caucaseuma lohmanderi – Golovatch 1985: 48. — Antić & Makarov 2016: 44, figs 32–34. — Turbanov et al. 2016b: 1311.

Material examined (53 ♂♂, 71 ♀♀, 3 juvs)

RUSSIA • 7 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀; Western Caucasus, Krasnodar Province, Greater Sochi, Khosta, Partizanskaya Cave; 30 Apr.–24 Aug. 1992; A.G. Koval leg.; Barber pitfall traps; ZMUM • 10 ♂♂, 13 ♀♀, 1 juv.; Western Caucasus, Krasnodar Province, Greater Sochi, Khosta, Mount Akhun, Bolshaya Akhunskaya Cave; 26 Apr.–26 Aug. 1992; A.G. Koval leg.; Barber pitfall traps; ZMUM • 2 ♂♂, 14 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding but 13 Aug.–24 Sep. 1988; pitfall traps; ZMUM • 18 ♂♂, 22 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding but 28 Apr.–23 Aug. 1990; IZB • 15 ♂♂, 17 ♀♀, 2 juvs; same collection data as for preceding but 4 Apr.–22 Jun. 1990; ZMUM • 1 ♂; Western Caucasus, Krasnodar Province, Greater Sochi, Akhshtyr Karst Massif, Avgust Cave; 9 Sep. 2015; I. Turbanov leg.; ZMUM.

Remarks and distribution

A troglobiont. This is the most abundant of all Caucaseuma species. So far, over 230 specimens from 11 caves in Sochi District, Russia, are known. Here is an updated list of caves from which this species is known, arranged in alphabetic order: Ametist, Akhunskaya (= Bolshaya Akhunskaya), Avgust, “Baribana” (= Grot Baribana) (type locality!), Dolgaya, Labirintovaya, Navalishenskaya (= Muzeynaya), Partizanskaya, Shirokopokosskaya (= Bozhyey Materi = “Our Lady“), Vorontsovskaya (= Bolshaya Vorontsovskaya; also includes Khod Kuzmenko) and Zapovednaya (= Tisovaya) (Fig. 1).

Notes

Published as part of Antić, Dragan & Makarov, Slobodan, 2022, Review of the genus Caucaseuma Strasser, 1970, with the description of a new cavernicolous species from the Western Caucasus and an updated key and distribution (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Anthroleucosomatidae), pp. 90-107 in European Journal of Taxonomy 819 (1) on page 101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.819.1783, http://zenodo.org/record/6564615

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References

  • Strasser K. 1970. Uber einige Diplopoden aus dem westlichen Kaukasus. Revue suisse de Zoologie 77 (1): 199 - 205. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 75888
  • Golovatch S. I. 1985. [for 1984 - 85] Two new genera of cave-dwelling millipedes (Diplopoda) with remarks on the milliped fauna of West Caucasian caves. International Journal of Speleology 14: 39 - 50.
  • Antic D. Z. & Makarov S. E. 2016. The Caucasus as a major hotspot of biodiversity: evidence from the millipede family Anthroleucosomatidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida). Zootaxa 4211 (1): 1 - 205. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4211.1.1
  • Turbanov I. S., Palatov D. M. & Golovatch S. I. 2016 b. The state of the art of biospeleology in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union: a review of cave (endogean) invertebrate fauna. 2. Arachnida - Acknowledgments. Entomological Review 96 (9): 1297 - 1333. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0013873816090116