Geophilus sounkyoensis Takakuwa, 1937

Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Bonato, Lucio, 2024, An updated synthesis of the Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) of Asian Russia, ZooKeys 1198, pp. 17-54 : 17

10. Geophilus sounkyoensis Takakuwa, 1937

Geophilus sounkyoensis Takakuwa 1937b: 283.

Geophilus sounkyoensis - Takakuwa 1937c: 77; 1940: 99; Ghilarov and Perel 1973: 46; Kurcheva 1977: 45; Ganin 1997: 121, 124, 126, 128.

Type locality.

Japan: Hokkaido: “Sounkyo” ( Takakuwa 1937c).

Type series.

Syntypes: unknown number of specimens, both sexes. Depository unknown.

Diagnosis.

A species of Geophilus with second maxillary pretarsus claw-like, longer than surrounding setae; forcipular trochanteroprefemur slightly longer than wide; forcipular trochanteroprefemur, femur and tibia without denticles; forcipular tarsungulum bearing a small basal denticle; 55-57 leg-bearing segments; “carpophagus” pits present, up to as wide as the metasternites; ventral pore-fields present, an entire posterior band and other sparse pores on the anterior metasternites, absent on the posterior metasternites; metasternite of ultimate leg-bearing segment wider than long; a few coxal pores on each coxopleuron, most of them close to the margin of metasternite and one pore located separately; anal pores present.

Distribution.

Far East: Maritime krai ( Ghilarov and Perel 1973; Kurcheva 1977; Ganin 1997). Outside Asian Russia: Japan ( Takakuwa 1937b, 1937c, 1940).