Escaryus perelae Titova, 1973 *

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33. Escaryus perelae Titova, 1973 *

Escaryus perelae Titova 1973: 101.

Escaryus perelae - Kurcheva 1977: 45; Markelov and Mineeva 1981: 129; Ganin 1997: 105, 109, 112, 121, 124, 126, 128; 2006: 501.

Type localities.

Russia: Maritime krai: "Suputinsky zapovednik" = Ussuriysky Nature Reserve, ca 43°40'N, 132°32'E, and "Rayon r. Sinancha" = near Cheremukhovaya River, inflow of Dzhigitovka River, ca 44°50'N, 136°07'E (both Titova 1973) (see Remarks).

Type series.

Holotype: female. Paratypes: 6 specimens, including 2 males and 4 females. Deposited in ZMMU (S. Golovatch and A. Schileyko, pers. comm., 13.II.2023 and XII.2023).

Diagnosis.

An Escaryus species with body length reaching ≥ 2 cm; clypeus with small plagulae; labral arc relatively shallow, with denticles short and obtuse; first maxillae with one pair of lappets; forcipular trochanteroprefemur and tibia with small denticles, femur without denticle, tarsungulum with a large basal denticle; 39-43 leg-bearing segments; metasternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment trapezoid, distinctly wider than long; most of coxal pores on the ventral side of coxopleura, mostly close to metasternite; anal pores present.

Distribution.

Far East: Amur oblast, Maritime and Khabarovsk krais ( Titova 1973; Kurcheva 1977; Markelov and Mineeva 1981; Ganin 1997, 2006). Outside Asian Russia: no records.

Remarks.

Titova (1973) indicated that the type series was from two localities ("Suputinsky zapovednik" and "Rayon r. Sinancha"), but she did not state explicitly which is the locality of the holotype.