Strigamia cf. acuminata (Leach, 1815)

Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Bonato, Lucio, 2024, An updated synthesis of the Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) of Asian Russia, ZooKeys 1198, pp. 17-54 : 17

13. Strigamia cf. acuminata (Leach, 1815)

Scolioplanes acuminatus - Sseliwanoff 1881: 15; 1884: 92; Verhoeff 1928: 278; Attems 1929: 222; Takakuwa 1933: 133; 1938: 241; 1940: 124; Shinohara 1972: 66; Kurcheva 1977: 46.

Strigamia acuminata - Ganin 1997: 105, 112, 116, 129, 134, 141; Barber 2009: 74; Bonato et al. 2012: 9; 2023: 11; Volkova 2016: 675.

Type localities.

United Kingdom: "Roborough Down near Plymouth" and "Battersea fields" ( Leach 1815).

Diagnosis.

A species of Strigamia with clypeal setae arranged in an intermediate and two lateral groups; forcipular tarsungula not surpassing the anterior margin of the head; basal denticle of forcipular tarsungulum relatively short and with straight converging margins; 37-43 leg-bearing segments; metasternites of the anterior part of the trunk without a mid-longitudinal sclerotized stripe; ultimate leg-bearing segment with pleuropretergite entire, i.e., without distinct intercalary pleurites, and metasternite approximately as long as wide.

Distribution.

Far East: Amur oblast and Khabarovsk krai ( Ganin 1997), Sakhalin oblast (Kuril Islands) ( Takakuwa 1933; Kurcheva 1977). Outside Asian Russia: Europe ( Barber 2009; Bonato et al. 2012, 2023; Volkova 2016).

Remarks.

All records from Russian Far East need confirmation, as are the records from Japan and the Western part of North America, because of probable confusion with other species including S. chionophila Wood, 1862 ( Bonato et al. 2012).