Polydesmus mediterraneus mediterraneus Daday, 1889

Bachvarova, Darina, Vagalinski, Boyan, Doichinov, Aleksandar & Stoev, Pavel, 2017, New records of millipedes and centipedes from Bulgaria, with an annotated checklist of the Bulgarian myriapods, Zootaxa 4263 (3), pp. 507-526 : 510

Polydesmus mediterraneus mediterraneus Daday, 1889

Polydesmus montenegrinus Attems, 1903: 124 , Figs 7 & 8 .

Material examined ( IBER): 1 ♂, 1 ♀, SW Bulgaria, Rupite village , N 41.262945, E 23.142682, near Strumeshnitsa River, planted poplar forest, in leaf litter, 12.IV.2012, leg. & det. BV.

Remarks. This is the second record of the nominotypical subspecies from Bulgaria after Stoev & Ribarov (1995) reported this species from an artificial gallery near the village of Lesovo (SE Bulgaria). P. m. valachicus Tabacaru & Negrea, 1961 is the other subspecies known from the country. It was reported by Strasser (1969) from Parnitsite Cave, Lovech District, and by Ceuca (1973) from Zlatni pyasatsi summer resort.

Figures

FIGURES 3 – 8. Bulgarosoma superficiei, male from Yarema, Vitosha Mt.: (3) leg 5; (4) leg-pair 6; (5) anterior gonopods, caudal view; (6) anterior gonopods, lateral view; (7) distal part of the right half of the anterior gonopods, caudal view; (8) posterior gonopods, caudal view. Abbreviations: a: angiocoxite (= coxal process), ap: anterior unciform process, c: colpoxite, la: lateral arm, mp: mesal clavate process, po: coxal pore, pp: posterior process of lateral arm, sc: syncolpoxite.