Polyporogaster porosa (Sseliwanoff, 1881)

Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Nedoev, Khozhiakbar Kh., 2021, A contribution to the centipede (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha, Scolopendromorpha) fauna of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, Ecologica Montenegrina 41, pp. 41-50 : 44

Polyporogaster porosa (Sseliwanoff, 1881)

Mesocanthus porosus Sseliwanoff 1881b: 231 ; 1884: 105–106.

Mesocanthus porosus – Sseliwanoff 1881a: 25; Attems 1904: 115.

Polyporogaster porosus – Silvestri 1919: 90; Lignau 1929a: 163–164, Abb. 2–3; Titova 1978: 241.

Polyporogaster porosa – Bonato et al. 2016; Bragina et al. 2020: 30 ; Dyachkov 2020a: 63 , Figs 8–13 ; 2020c: 81.

Material. 1 ♀ ( ZIN chilo-39), Uzbekistan , [ Tashkent Region ], Tashkent, 22.III .; 1 ♀ ( ZIN chilo-41), Turkmenistan , near Ashgabat, Bagir [Village, ca. N37°57'25", E58°11'53"], 27.IV.1927, all coll. NZ .

Distribution. Central Asia: Uzbekistan ( Sseliwanoff 1881 a, 1881b), Tajikistan ( Dyachkov 2020c), Kazakhstan ( Bragina et al. 2020; Dyachkov 2020b), and Turkmenistan (new).

Previous records. Uzbekistan: Tashkent Region ( Sseliwanoff 1881 a, 1881b, 1884); "Turkestan" ( Sseliwanoff 1884; Attems 1904); "Karabulak" ( Lignau 1929a).

Remarks. This species was described in two papers ( Sseliwanoff 1881b, 1884), but firstly mentioned by Sseliwanoff (1881a) without description. P. porosa is new to the fauna of Turkmenistan.

Figures

Figures 8–10. Scolopendra canidens Newport, 1844 (PSU No. 1486): 8 – head, ventral view; 9 – rear body fragment and prefemora of ultimate legs, dorsal view. Cryptops doriae Pocock, 1891 (ZIN chilo-58): 10 – distal part of femur, tibia, tarsus 1 and proximal part of tarsus 2 of ultimate leg, lateral view. Abbreviations: pf – prefemur, f – femur, ti – tibia, ts1 – tarsus 1, ts2 – tarsus 2. Scale: 8, 9 – 1 mm, 10 – 0.2 mm.

Figures 11–16. Scolopendra cingulata Latreille, 1829 (PSU No. 1477): 11 – ultimate leg-bearing segment, ventral view; 12 – same, dorsal view; 13 – prefemur of left ultimate leg, dorsal view; 14 – same, ventral view; 15 – head, ventral view; 16 – anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite, ventral view. Scale: 1 mm.