Brachydesmus kalischewskyi Lignau, 1915

Zuev, R. V., Proskura, E. D. & Evsyukov, A. P., 2023, New records of millipedes (Diplopoda) from the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, northern Caucasus, Russia, Russian Entomological Journal 32 (3), pp. 360-368 : 362-363

Brachydesmus kalischewskyi Lignau, 1915

MATERIAL. 1 ♂ ( DSTU), Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Teberda Biosphere Nature Reserve, Teberda River valley, 24.VII.2012, D.D. Khisametdinova & Y. V. Kochetov leg.; 1 ♂ ( ZMS), Urupsky Distr., between Aziatsky and Rozhkao, Abies , Fagus & Acer forest, 1000 m a.s.l., 15.IX.2017; 2 ♀♀ ( ZMS), same place, 25.IX.2016, all leg. R. V. Zuev.

REMARKS. A highly polymorphous species, subendemic to the Caucasus. Widespread in the Russian part of the Caucasus: Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, Adygea, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Dagestan and Chechnya. It has also been recorded from Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Iran and Turkey [ Golovatch et al., 2016; Kokhia, Golovatch, 2018; Evsyukov et al., 2022].

Figs 1–5. Polydesmus complanatus (Linnaeus, 1761) from Cherkessk: 1 — habitus; 2 — a female building a brooding egg capsule in a natural habitat; 3 — tergites 17–19; 4 — right gonopod; 5 — coxa of ♀ leg pair 2, posterior view. Scale bar: 10 mm (1), without scale (2–5).

Рис. 1–5. Polydesmus complanatus (Linnaeus, 1761) иЗ Черкесска: 1 — габитус; 2 — самка, строЯЩаЯ «гнеЗдо» длЯ Яиц в естественной среде обитаниЯ; 3 — тергиты 17–19; 4 — правый гонопод; 5 — таЗик пары ног 2 самки, вид сЗади. Масштаб 10 мм (1), беЗ масштаба (2–5).

Family PARADOXOSOMATIDAE is formally a species new to the fauna of Karachay-Cherkess

Republic.

Strongylosoma kordylamythrum Attems, 1898

Family JULIDAE

MATERIAL. 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( DSTU), Karachay-Cherkess Republic, near Arkhyz, Alnus forest, 1400 m a.s.l., under bark, Byzantorhopalum rossicum (Timotheew, 1897) 5.VIII.2015, A.P. Evsyukov leg.; 1 ♀ ( ZMS), Urupsky Distr., between Damkhurts and Zagedan, Abies & Acer forest, MATERIAL. 4 ♂♂, 1 ♀, 1 juv. ( ZMS), Karachay-Cher- 1200 m a.s.l., 16.IX.2017, leg. R. V. Zuev; 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀ ( ZMS), kess Republic, Urupsky Distr., between Aziatsky and Rozh- Zelenchuk Distr., Arkhyz, «Narat» hostel, Abies & Betula for- kao, Abies , Fagus & Acer forest, 1000 m a.s.l., 25.IX.2016; est, 1400 m a.s.l., 43º33′34′′N, 41º16′53′′E, 5.VII.2022; 1 ♂ 2 ♀♀, 1 juv. ( ZMS), Karachayevsk Distr., 2.5 km S of Gum- ( ZMS), same place, 10.VII.2022; 1 ♂ ( ZMS), near Arkhyz, bashi Pass, near «Mara» hostel, subalpine meadow, 2500 m Fagus , Pinus & Betula forest, 1500 m a.s.l., 9.VII.2022; 1 ♂, 1 a.s.l., 25.VIII.2017; 2 ♀♀ ( ZMS), Malokarachayevsk Distr., ♀ ( ZMS), Arkhyz, near Baritovyi Waterfall, subalpine mead- 1.5 km S of Kommunstroy, «Medovye» Waterfalls, meadow, ow, 2100 m a.s.l., 43°35'21"N 41°16'44"E, 12.VII.2022; 1 ♀ 1000 m a.s.l., 43°53′01″N, 42°35′11″E, 24.VIII.2017, all R. V. ( ZMS), 5 km SW of Arkhyz, Taulu meadow, Pinus & Picea Zuev leg.; 1 ♀ ( ZMS), Cherkessk, «Zelenyi ostrov» Park, forest, 1590 m a.s.l., 43º31′16′′N, 41º14′13′′E, 3.VIII.2022; floodplain of Kuban River, Salix & Populus forest, 500 m a.s.l., 1 ♂, 1 juv. ( ZMS), near Nizhny Arkhyz, near Special Astro- 17.VII.2022; 1 juv. ( ZMS), Cherkessk, forest strip along Abaphysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, zinka River, Fraxinus & Robinia , 500 m a.s.l., 44º11′45′′N, Betula forest, 1950–2050 m a.s.l., 8.VII.2022; 1 ♂ ( ZMS), near 42º3′38′′E, 19.VIII.2022, all R. V. Zuev & E.D. Proskura leg.

camp in Sofyiskaya meadow, Pinus & Picea forest, 2180 m REMARKS. An Eastern Euro-Mediterranean species a.s.l., 43º27′03′′N, 41º16′22′′E, 4.VIII.2022; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( ZMS), widely distributed in the Caucasus [Vagalinski, Golovatch, Abazinsk Distr., near Elburgan, Yew grove, Carpinus & Taxus 2021; Golovatch, Antipova, 2022]. It has hitherto been reforest, 700 m a.s.l., 44º5′34′′N, 41º47′12′′E, 12.VII.2022; 1 ♂ corded from the Urupsky and Zelenchuk districts of Karachay- ( ZMS), Cherkessk, forest strip along Abazinka River, Fraxinus Cherkess Republic [ Lohmander, 1936].

& Robinia , 500 m a.s.l., 44º11′45′′N, 42º3′38′′E, 16.VII.2022;

2 juv. ( ZMS), same place, 19.VIII.2022, all R. V. Zuev & E.D. Colchiobrachyiulus montanus Vagalinski, 2021 Proskura leg. Figs 6, 7.

REMARK. A very common species widespread in the

Caucasus and Ciscaucasia, including the Karachay-Cherkess MATERIAL. 4 ♂♂, 7♀♀, 1 juv. ( DSTU), Karachay-Cher- Republic [ Evsyukov et al., 2016]. kess Republic, Teberda Biosphere Nature Reserve, Fagus &

Carpinus forest, litter and under barks, 26.VII.2012, D.D. Kh-

ORDER JULIDA isametdinova & Y.V. Kochetov leg.

Family BLANIULIDAE REMARKS. Endemic to the northwestern parts of the

Caucasus Major. Previously recorded only from the very same

Teberda Biosphere Nature Reserve [Vagalinski, Golovatch, Nopoiulus kochii (Gervais, 1847)

2021].

MATERIAL. 1 ♀ ( ZMS), Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Cherkessk, «Zelenyi ostrov» Park, floodplain of Kuban River, Salix & Populus forest, 500 m a.s.l., 17.VII.2022, R. V. Zuev & E.D. Proskura leg.

REMARKS. This subcosmopolitan species is extremely widespread in the Caucasus [ Enghoff, 1984; Golovatch, Enghoff, 1990; Evsyukov et al., 2022], yet being formally new to the fauna of Karachay-Cherkess Republic.