Picea lignaui, Lohmander, 1936

Golovatch, Sergei, Evsyukov, Aleksandr & Reip, Hans, 2016, The millipede family Polydesmidae in the Caucasus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), Zootaxa 4085 (1), pp. 1-51 : 6-10

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6079486

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scientific name

Picea lignaui
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Polydesmus (s. str.) lignaui Lohmander, 1936

Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 , 3D – 3G View FIGURE 3 , 4B View FIGURE 4 , Map 1

Polydesmus minor Lignau, 1915: 374 (D).

Polydesmus lignaui Lohmander, 1936: 11 (M), nom. nov. pro P. minor Lignau, 1915 , non P. minor Bollman, 1888 .

Polydesmus (Polydesmus) lignaui lignaui— Attems, 1940: 21 (M).

Polydesmus lignaui— Attems, 1940: 20 (D); Lang, 1959: 1790 (M); Kobakhidze, 1965: 391 (R); Lokšina and Golovatch, 1979: 384 (M); Talikadze, 1984: 143 (R); Zuev, 2014: 348 (R, D).

Polydesmus minor— Lang, 1959: 1790 (M).

Material examined. 1 male (ZMUM), RUSSIA, Krasnodar Prov., Sochi, Lazarevskoe, garden, pitfall traps, 7 – 17.VII.1986; 1 female (ZMUM), same locality, 21.VIII – 4.IX.1986, all leg. Yu. Zayats; 1 female, 2 juv. (ZMUM), Krasnodar Prov., Pass Mikhailovskii, Fagus forest, decaying log, 5.VII.1956; 1 female (ZMUM), Krasnodar Prov., Gelenjik, Fagus forest, 5.VII.1956; all leg. K. Arnoldi, all det. H. Lohmander, det. C. Dziadosz, 1968; 2 males, 1 female, 1 juv. (ZMUM), Krasnodar Prov., Severskaya Distr., 2 – 10 km S of Ubinskaya, 300 – 450 m a.s.l., Quercus , Fagus , Carpinus etc. forest, litter and under bark, 3 – 4.VII.1986, leg. S. Golovatch; 4 males, 14 females, 1 juv. (ZMUM), Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Teberda Nature Reserve, Dombai, 1700 – 1800 m a.s.l., floodplain Abies , Fagus , Picea , Betula , Acer etc. forest, litter, under bark and stones, 11.V.1985; 1 female, 4 juv. (ZMUM), same locality, Mt Mussa-Achitara, 2700 – 2800 m a.s.l., alpine meadow, under stones, 29.VII.1986; 1 male, 4 females (ZMUM), Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Teberda Nature Reserve, Gonachkhir Canyon between Teberda and Dombai, road to Klukhor Pass, 1700 – 1900 m a.s.l., Abies , Fagus , Acer etc. forest, 1.VI.1985, all leg. S. Golovatch; 1 male, 1 female, 1 subadult female (AE), Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Teberda Nature Reserve, Fagus and Carpinus forest, litter, under logs, 26.VII.2012; 1 male, 3 females, 10 juv. (AE), same locality, Teberda River valley, meadow with Fagus and Carpinus forest, 26.VII.2012, leg. D. Khisametdinova and Y. Kochetov; 3 males, 3 females (ZMUM), Kabardino-Balkaria, near Mt Elbrus, 8 km off month of Adyl-Su River, Djan-Tugan, 2150 – 2200 m a.s.l., xerophytous meadow, pitfall traps, 11 – 20.VII.1987, leg. A. Kulikov.

3 males, 2 juv. (ZMUM), ABKHAZIA, SE of Lake Ritsa, Pass Anchkho, 2000 m a.s.l., Betula and Rhododendron , litter, 16.VIII.1986, leg. S. Golovatch; 1 male, 1 female, 3 juv. (ZMUM), Sukhumi, University Campus, N42°58,4’ E41°04,04’, ca 50 m a.s.l., Encopytus, tree shaking, litter, 7.XII.2003, leg. Yu. Marusik and G. Antonova; 2 males, 3 females, 2 juv. (ZMUM), Sukhumi Botanical Garden, litter, 20.VIII.1986; 1 male, 3 females (ZMUM), Sukhumi Distr., Bzyb Valley, Pskhu, 700 – 950 m a.s.l., Fagus , Quercus , Castanea etc. forest, litter, under bark and stones, 15 – 16.VIII.1983, all leg. S. Golovatch; 1 female, 4 juv. (ZMUM), Kodor Mt. Ridge, Tkvarcheli Distr., SSE of Khojali, 1750 m a.s.l., 28.VI.1986, leg. I. Ushakov.

1 female (ZMUM), GEORGIA, Mingrelsky (= Egrissky) Mt. Range, NW slope of Mt Tsekhuri, 1500 – 1800 m a.s.l., Fagus forest, litter, 18 – 19.VIII.1988, leg. I. Belousov; 1 female (ZMUM), 10 km N of Djvari, 800 m a.s.l., Buxus , Fagus , Picea , Taxus etc. forest, litter, 20 – 21.VIII.1986; 3 females (ZMUM), Svanetia, Mestia, 1 500 m a.s.l., Betula and Rhododendron on moraine, litter and under stones, 5 and 16.IX.1986; 1 female, 1 juv. (ZMUM), same locality, under stones, 22.X.1979, all leg. S. Golovatch; 1 juv. (ZMUM), Svanetia, Mestia Distr., Lukhi N of Khaishi, Nenskra Valley, 800 m a.s.l., forest, litter, 2.IX.1986, leg. A. Ryvkin; 22 males, 14 females, 6 juv. (ZMUM), Svanetia, ca 40 km W of Mestia, Kherkhvashi E of Nakra (= Naki), 1200 – 1700 m a.s.l., Quercus , Fagus , Carpinus , Picea , Abies etc. forest, litter and under bark, 21.VIII. – 21.IX.1986; 5 males, 3 females, 2 juv. (ZMUM), same locality, above Kherkhvashi, 1900 – 2200 m a.s.l., timberline ( Rhododendron , Picea , Abies ) and subalpine meadows, 21.IX.1986, all leg. S. Golovatch.

Descriptive notes. Length ca 10 – 13 mm (male, female), width of midbody metazonae 1.25 – 1.7 (male) or 1.4 – 2.1 mm (female), metazonite to prozonite width ratio <2.0 ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ). Live coloration usually uniformly red or redbrown to pink, in alcohol brown to faded light brown or pinkish; legs light ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ).

All characters as in P. abchasius ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 , 3D – 3G View FIGURE 3 , 4B View FIGURE 4 ), except as follows. Collum about as broad as head ( Fig. 2A, 2B, 2F View FIGURE 2 ). Paraterga 2 – 4 in female usually not upturned, subhorizontal ( Fig. 3G View FIGURE 3 ). Gonopod ( Fig. 4B View FIGURE 4 ) endomere rod typically axe-shaped apically.

MAP 1. Distribution of Polydesmus species in the Caucasus: P. abchasius (red square), P. lignaui (blue circle), P. muralewiczi (green star) and P. mediterraneus (pink triangle).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Pinopsida

Order

Pinales

Family

Pinaceae

Genus

Picea

Loc

Picea lignaui

Golovatch, Sergei, Evsyukov, Aleksandr & Reip, Hans 2016
2016
Loc

(Polydesmus) lignaui

Attems 1940: 21
1940
Loc

lignaui

Lohmander 1936: 11
1936
Loc

minor

Lignau 1915: 374
1915
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