Underwoodia kurtschevae Golovatch, 1980

Mikhaljova, E. V., 2019, Millipedes of the order Chordeumatida (Diplopoda) from the Russian Far East and Siberia in the collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, Far Eastern Entomologist 374, pp. 1-9 : 8-9

Underwoodia kurtschevae Golovatch, 1980

MATERIAL. Russia: Primorskii krai (southern): Shkotovskii District, 5 km NE of Mt. Pidan (Livadijskaya), Pryamoi Kluch river valley, 320–350 m, 43,111° N

132,729° E, mixed forest, leaf litter, 15–16.V 2015, 1 male, 7 females ( ZMUC), leg .

A. Hansen, M. Justesen, A. Solodovnikov; Shkotovskii District, NE slopes of Mt.

Pidan (Livadijskaya), Pryamoi Kluch river source, 500–700 m, 43,089° N 132,717°

E, mixed/fir forest, leaf litter, 16–17. V 2015 , 1 female ( ZMUC), leg. A. Hansen, M.

Justesen, A. Solodovnikov; Khabarovskii krai (southern): Sikhote-Alin (Central)

range, upper course of River Ko , 47,074° N 136,478° E, 700–800 m, fir-birch forest, wet leaf litter, 23–25. V 2015, 9 females ( ZMUC), leg. A. Hansen , M.

Justesen, A. Solodovnikov.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: Far East (Amurskaya oblast, Jewish Autonomous

Region, Primorskii krai, southern half of Khabarovskii krai including Bolshoy

Shantar Island, Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, Moneron Island , Kurile

Islands: Kunashir, Shikotan, Zelyonyi, Iturup, Urup, Chirpoi, Ketoi); North Korea.

REMARKS. This species is characterized by parthenogenesis, males being extremely rare. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am most grateful to all persons who collected material for the present study.

Dr. H.Enghoff has kindly provided access to material housed at the Natural History

Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Gerstfeldt, G. 1859. Ueber einige zum Theil neue Arten Platoden, Anneliden, Myriapoden und Crustaceen Sibiriens, namentlich seines östlichen Theiles und des Amur-Gebietes.

Mémoires des Savants étrangers de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint Péters-

bourg, 8: 260–296.

Golovatch, S. I. 1978. A new family of East Asiatic Chordeumida ( Diplopoda). Zoologicheskii

Zhurnal, 57(7): 1008–1011. [In Russian with English summary]

Haase, E. 1880. Zur Kenntnis der sibirischen Myriаpoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, III(55):

223–225.

Mikhaljova, E. V. 2004. The millipedes ( Diplopoda) of the Asian part of Russia. Pensoft ,

Sofia-Moscow, 292 pp.

Mikhaljova, E. V. 2016. New species and new records of millipedes ( Diplopoda) from the

Asian part of Russia. Far Eastern Entomologist, 316: 1–25.

Mikhaljova, E. V. 2017. The millipede fauna ( Diplopoda) of the Asian part of Russia. Dal-

nauka, Vladivostok, 336 pp. [In Russian]

Shear, W.A. 1992. Golovatchia , new genus, and Golovatchiidae , new family, from the Far

East of the Russian Republic, with a comment on Hoffmaneumatidae ( Diplopoda,

Chordeumatida). Myriapodologica, 2(10): 63–72.

Shear, W.A., Tanabe T. & Tsurusaki N. 1997. Japanese chordeumatid millipeds. IV. The new genus Japanoparvus ( Diplopoda, Chordeumatida , Hoffmaneumatidae ). Myriapodologica, 4(11): 89–99.