Stenotaenia giljarovi, (FOLKMANOVA, 1956)

Bonato, Lucio & Minelli, Alessandro, 2008, Stenotaenia Koch, 1847: a hitherto unrecognized lineage of western Palaearctic centipedes with unusual diversity in body size and segment number (Chilopoda: Geophilidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153 (2), pp. 253-286 : 265-266

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00394.x
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5492475
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STENOTAENIA GILJAROVI ( FOLKMANOVA, 1956)

Schizopleres giljarovi Folkmanova, 1956: 1638 View in CoL (original description), fig. 2.

Type localities: ‘ Krasnodarskij kraj (stanitsa Ehrivanskaya ; Ubinskoe i Georgievskoe lesnichestva)’ = Krasnodar region ( Erivanskaya ; Ubinskoe and Georgievskoe forestries) ( Russia) .

Type material: Thirteen syntypes, of which four are males and six are females, up to 52-mm long; repository unknown ( A. Schileyko and K. Tajovský, pers. comm.) .

Diagnosis: A Stenotaenia species of large body size (total length reaching 5 cm); c. 81–89 leg-bearing segments; labrum with one or two tubercles; first maxillae with distinct lappets on both the coxosternum and the telopodites; chitin lines of the forcipular coxosternum reaching the anterior condyles; anterior margin of the forcipular coxosternum almost straight; forcipular intermediate articles poorly distinct; sternal pore areas in the anterior part of the trunk round, and placed at the midlength of each sternum; each coxopleuron with one anterior and one posterior pouch with pores (see also Table 3).

Taxonomic history: After the original description by Folkmanova (1956), no other specimen was identified, and the true affinities of this species remained unrecognized ( Dobroruka, 1961).

Assignment to Stenotaenia: It is assigned confidently to Stenotaenia (comb. nov.), as the original description and illustrations document a combination of characters that are diagnostic for this genus (Table 2).

Validity: It is recognized here as a distinct species only provisionally. According to the original description and illustrations, S. giljarovi could be distinguished from most other species of Stenotaenia mainly for the number of trunk segments and the shape of the sternal pore areas ( Table 3). However, further investigation should evaluate the putative diagnostic value of these characters, above all in respect to S. linearis and S. asiaeminoris .

Distribution: It is only known from the western part of Caucasus, north of the Black Sea ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ). A few other published records of S. linearis from neighbouring regions in Anatolia ( Zapparoli, 1999) should be reassessed.