Ghilarovia kygae Gulicka , 1972

Nefedieva, Julia S., Nefediev, Pavel S., Sakhnevich, Miroslava B. & Dyachkov, Yuri V., 2015, Distribution of millipedes along an altitudinal gradient in the south of Lake Teletskoye, Altai Mts, Russia (Diplopoda), ZooKeys 510, pp. 141-161 : 148

Ghilarovia kygae Gulicka, 1972

Ghilarovia kygae Gulička, 1972: 39, 40: figs.

Ghilarovia kygae - Lokšina and Golovatch 1979: 383; Shear 1988: 55: figs; Mikhaljova 1993: 16; 2002: 203, 202: figs; 2004: 188-190,188: figs, 189: map; 2013a: 8; Shelley et al. 2000: 68; Mikhaljova and Golovatch 2001: 107; Nefediev 2005a: 58; 2005b: 9; Nefediev and Nefedieva 2007b: 161; 2008a: 117; 2008b: 62; 2013: 87; Nefedieva and Nefediev 2008: 123; Nefedieva et al. 2014: 65.

Material examined.

18 males, 16 females (ASU), site 1; 9 males, 6 females (ASU), site 2; 2 males, 1 female (ASU), site A; 3 males, 9 females, 2 juv. (ASU), site 4; 24 males, 18 females, 2 juv. (ASU), site 5; 15 males, 15 females, 2 juv. (ASU), site 6; 21 males, 15 females, 1 juv., 1 fragm. (ASU), site 7; 5 males, 3 females (ASU), site 8; 6 males, 6 females, 14 juv. (ASU), site 8a; 2 females, 1 juv. (ASU), site 9; 2 males (ASU), site 10a; 3 males, 3 females (ASU), site 11; 3 males, 1 female, 8 juv. (ASU), site 12; 3 males, 1 female (ASU), site 12; 6 males, 8 females (ASU), site 13; 2 males, 5 females (ASU), site 13a; 5 males, 16 females (ASU), site 14; 1 male, 1 female, 1 fragm. (ASU), site 15; 2 males, 8 females (ASU), site B; 1 male (ASU), site 16.

Distribution.

The species is known to occur in the Republic of Altai, Siberia, Russia only.

Remarks.

This species prefers to live in mixed and dark coniferous forests, and also known from subalpine habitats like golsty, with the maximum altitude registered is about 2000 m a.s.l. ( Mikhaljova and Golovatch 2001). In the Kyga Biogeocenosis Profile the species shows the highest ecological plasticity, dwelling in low- and mid-mountain chern taiga forests, and subalpine sparse growths of Pinus sibirica up to subgoltsy, with the maximum altitude registered is about 2028 m a.s.l.