Sibiriulus rectangulus Mikhaljova, 2009

Mikhaljova, Elena V., Nefediev, Pavel S., Nefedieva, Julia S., Sakhnevich, Miroslava B. & Dyachkov, Yuri V., 2014, Review of the millipede genus Sibiriulus Gulička, 1972, with descriptions of three new species from Altai, Siberia, Russia (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae), Zootaxa 3866 (1) : -

Sibiriulus rectangulus Mikhaljova, 2009

Figs 36, 37 .

Sibiriulus rectangulus Mikhaljova 2009: 67 –68, 65: figs 24–29 (holotype male, in the Institute of Biology and Soil Science of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia).

Material re-examined: 1 female-paratype ( IBSS), Russia, Siberia, Republic of Altai, Gorno-Altaisk, Betula forest, 28 August 2001, leg. N.V. Levina.

Type locality. Gorno-Altaisk, Republic of Altai, Siberia, Russia

Diagnosis. This species differs from congeners mainly by the structure of the gonopod opisthomere, with the distal part bent at a near right angle anteriad, and with a strong inner process near the middle of the opisthomere length.

Distribution. Russia: Siberia (Republic of Altai).

Remarks. This species is known only from the original description from the Republic of Altai, Siberia, Russia ( Mikhaljova 2009).

Vulvae of this species have never been shown in an SEM micrograph. Therefore they are given here ( Figs 36, 37 ).

Figures

FIGURES 36 – 37. Sibiriulus rectangulus Mikhaljova, 2009, female. 36, right vulva (caudal view); 37, left vulva (lateral view).