Lithobius (Ezembius) princeps Stuxberg, 1876

Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh., 2023, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Mongolia, Ecologica Montenegrina 64, pp. 221-241 : 233-234

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scientific name

Lithobius (Ezembius) princeps Stuxberg, 1876
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19. Lithobius (Ezembius) princeps Stuxberg, 1876 View in CoL

Terra typica: [ Russia, Siberia, Yenisey River, between 61° and 62°] “circa flumen Jenissej inter 61 et 62 gradus lat.bor.” ( Stuxberg 1876).

Lithobius princeps Stuxberg 1876: 309 View in CoL (♂ ♀).

Ezembius scrobiculatus Stuxberg 1876: 310 View in CoL .

Ezembius scrobiculatus View in CoL – Chamberlin 1919: 19; 1923: 241; Eason 1976: 100 (1♀).

Monotarsobius princeps – Attems 1909: 18.

Lithobius princeps View in CoL – Eason 1976: 97 (♂ ♀); Zalesskaja 1978: 121.

Lithobius (Ezembius) princeps View in CoL – Eason 1976: 97; 1986b: 58; Nefediev et al. 2021: 39–40 (1♂); Nefediev & Farzalieva 2020: 188 (9♂♂, 1 ♀); Dyachkov et al. 2022a: 170 View Cited Treatment .

? [see Remarks] Lithobius czekanowskii Sseliwanoff 1881a: 15 View in CoL (12 specimens); 1881b: 7 (1 ♂, 1♀).

Material. Bayan-Ölgii Aimag: 3♂♂, 1 juv.♀ (PSU-664), [Bay8], scree, under the rocks, 11.VII.2015, coll. AF .

Previous records. Absent.

Distribution. Spread in Siberia ( Nefediev et al. 2017b, 2021; Nefediev & Farzalieva 2020; Nefediev et al. 2021).

Remarks. This species is new to the fauna of Mongolia.

According to Eason (1976: 97), L. czekanowskii is a putative junior synonym of L. princeps (listed above with a question mark); probable but uncertain synonymy ( Bonato et al. 2016).

Attems, C. (1909) Die Myriopoden der Vega-Expedition. Arkiv for Zoologi, 5 (3), 1 - 84.

Bonato, L., Chagas, J. A., Edgecombe, G. D., Lewis, J. G. E., Minelli, A., Pereira, L. A., Shelley, R. M., Stoev, P., Zapparoli, M. (2016) ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Available at http: // chilobase. biologia. unipd. it. (10.12.2022)

Chamberlin, R. V. (1919) Chilopoda collected by the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913 - 18. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 3, 15 - 22.

Chamberlin, R. V. (1923) A biological survey of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. North American fauna, 46, 240 - 244.

Dyachkov Yu. V., Farzalieva G. Sh. & Tuf I. H. (2022 a) An annotated checklist of centipedes (Chilopoda) of Middle Asian countries, part 1. Lithobiomorpha. Zootaxa, 5100 (2), 151 - 188. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5100.2.1

Eason, E. H. (1976) The type specimens and identity of Siberian species described in the genus Lithobius by Anton Stuxberg in 1876 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 58, 91 - 127.

Eason, E. H. (1986 b) The Lithobiidae of Afghanistan with descriptions of three new species of the giganteusgroup of Lithobius subgenus Ezembius, and a key to the central Asiatic species of this group (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha). Steenstrupia, 12, 49 - 60.

Nefediev, P. S., Tuf, I. H. & Farzalieva, G. Sh. (2017 b) Centipedes from urban areas in southwestern Siberia, Russia (Chilopoda). Part 2. Geophilomorpha. Arthropoda Selecta, 26 (1), 8 - 14.

Nefediev, P. S., Nefedieva, J. S. & Farzalieva, G. Sh. (2021) New data on the myriapod fauna (Myriapoda: Chilopoda, Diplopoda) of the Republic of Khakassia, central Siberia, Russia. Invertebrate Zoology, 18 (1), 36 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / invertzool. 18.1.04

Sseliwanoff, A. V. (1881 a) Geophilidae from the Museum of Imperial Academy of Sciences. Zapiski Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 40, 1 - 27 [in Russian].

Stuxberg, A. (1876) On the Myriopoda, from Siberia and Waigatsch Island, collected during the expedition of Prof. Nordenskiold, 1875. The Annals and magazine of natural history, 4 (17), 306 - 318.

Zalesskaja, N. T. (1978) Identification book of the lithobiomorph centipedes of the USSR (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). Nauka publ., Moscow, 212 pp. [in Russian]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Chilopoda

Order

Lithobiomorpha

Family

Lithobiidae

Genus

Lithobius