Lithobius (Monotarsobius) ferganensis Trotzina, 1894

Dyachkov, Yurii V., Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh. & Tuf, Ivan H., 2022, An annotated checklist of centipedes (Chilopoda) of Middle Asian countries, part 1. Lithobiomorpha, Zootaxa 5100 (2), pp. 151-188 : 173-174

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33. Lithobius (Monotarsobius) ferganensis Trotzina, 1894 View in CoL

Type locality: [ Kyrgyzstan, Osh Region] Nördlichen Alai , 2330–3330 m [N Alai Mt. Range — Kg 24*] ( Trotzina 1894) .

Lithobius ferganensis Trotzina, 1894: 252 View in CoL (18 ad., 1 juv.).

Monotarsobius ferganensis View in CoL — Attems, 1904: 115; Zalesskaja, 1978: 162 (♂ ♀). Lithobius (Monotarsobius) ferganensis View in CoL — Eason, 1997: 120; Farzalieva, 2006: 105; Ma et al., 2014: 344.

Previous records. Kyrgyzstan: Osh Region —N of Alai Mt. Range [Kg24*] ( Trotzina 1894); “Middle Asian” ( Zalesskaja 1978).

Habitat records. “Mostly alpine” ( Zalesskaja 1978).

Remarks. Eason established 13 species and subspecies (see Eason 1997: 120) from Turkey, Caucasus and Middle Asia as junior synonyms of L. ferganensis , but two of them ( L. turkestanicus and L. sseliwanoffi ) were questioned by Farzalieva (2006). She follows Zalesskaja (1978), who regarded these species as valid. In the current paper, we support this point of view and consider L. ferganensis as Middle Asian species. Some authors share Eason’s opinion ( Simaiakis et al. 2013; Ma et al. 2014; Zuev 2016; Zarei et al. 2020) and consider the range of L. ferganensis wider than Middle Asia.

References

Attems, C. (1904) Central - und hoch - asiatische Myriopoden. Gesammelt im Jahre 1900 von Dr. von Almassy und Dr. von Stummer. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, 20, 113 - 130.

Eason, E. H. (1997) On some Lithobiomorpha from the mountains of Kirghizia and Kazakhstan (Chilopoda). Arthropoda Selecta, 6 (1 / 2), 117 - 121.

Farzalieva, G. Sh. (2006) New species of the lithobiid genus Lithobius (Monotarsobius) (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) from eastern Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta, 15 (2), 99 - 117.

Ma, H., Pei, S., Hou, X., Zhu, T., Wu, D. & Gai, Y. (2014) An annotated checklist of Lithobiomorpha of China. Zootaxa, 3847 (3), 333 - 358. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3847.3.2

Simaiakis, S. M., Zapparoli, M., Minelli, A. & Bonato, L. (2013) The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species. Zootaxa, 3647 (2), 279 - 306. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3647.2.3

Trotzina, A. (1894) Vier neue Lithobius - Arten aus Central Asia. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 28, 247 - 253.

Zalesskaja, N. T. (1978) Identification book of the lithobiomorph centipedes of the USSR (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). Nauka publ., Moscow, 212 pp. [in Russian]

Zarei, R., Rahimian, H., Mirmonsef, H. & Bonato, L. (2020) Geophilomorpha from Alborz Mountains and a checklist of Chilopoda from Iran. Zootaxa, 4780 (1), 132 - 146. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4780.1.6