Altajosoma kemerovo (Shear, 1990)

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 : 147

Altajosoma kemerovo (Shear, 1990)

Diplomaragna kemerovo Shear, 1990: 21, 20: figs.

Diplomaragna kemerovo - Mikhaljova 1993: 25; Nefediev and Nefedieva 2008a: 117.

Altajosoma kemerovo - Mikhaljova 2000: 161; 2004: 180-181, 180: figs, 173: map; 2013a: 7; Mikhaljova and Golovatch 2001: 108; Vorobiova et al. 2002: 60; Mikhaljova and Nefediev 2003: 86; Nefediev 2005a: 53; 2005b: 9; Nefediev and Nefedieva 2006: 98; 2007a: 139; 2007b: 161; 2008b: 62; 2013: 87; Nefedieva and Nefediev 2008: 123; Mikhaljova et al. 2008: 51; Nefedieva et al. 2014: 65.

Material examined.

4 females (ASU), site 7; 1 juv. (ASU), site 8; 7 juv. (ASU), site 13a; 1 female, 3 juv. (ASU), site 16.

Material re-examined

(specimens published by Mikhaljova et al. 2008). 1 male (ASU), site A; 1 male (ASU), site 5; 1 male (ASU), site 6; 5 males (ASU), site 7; 1 male (ASU), site 8; 1 male (ASU), site 13a; 1 male (ASU), site 16.

Distribution.

This species appears to be spread in the south of Siberia, Russia: Kemerovo and Novosibirsk areas, Republic of Altai, Republic of Khakassia, southern part of Krasnoyarsk Province.

Remarks.

The species dwells in different forest habitats like small-leaved, mixed and dark coniferous forests. In the Kyga Biogeocenosis Profile it is very rare (0.5-5 ind./m2), mainly collected in low- and mid-mountain chern taiga at 853-1100 m a.s.l., but also found in subalpine sparse growths of Pinus sibirica and subgoltsy sparse growths of Pinus sibirica with Betula rotundifolia and Salix glauca bushes, with the maximum altitude registered is about 2028 m a.s.l.