Orinisobates sibiricus ( Gulicka , 1963)

Nefedieva, Julia S., Nefediev, Pavel S., Sakhnevich, Miroslava B. & Dyachkov, Yuri V., 2015, Distribution of millipedes along an altitudinal gradient in the south of Lake Teletskoye, Altai Mts, Russia (Diplopoda), ZooKeys 510, pp. 141-161 : 146

Orinisobates sibiricus ( Gulicka, 1963)

Isobates sibiricus Gulička, 1963: 522: figs.

Isobates (Orinisobates) sibiricus - Gulička 1972: 45: figs; Nefediev and Nefedieva 2008a: 117.

Orinisobates sibiricus - Lokšina and Golovatch 1979: 387; Enghoff 1985: 53, 54: figs; Mikhaljova 1993: 16; 2002: 206; 2004: 96-97, 96: figs, 94: map; Mikhaljova and Golovatch 2001: 107; Mikhaljova and Nefediev 2003: 83; Nefediev 2005a: 39; 2005b: 8; Nefediev and Nefedieva 2006: 98; 2007a: 139; 2007b: 160; 2008a: 117; 2008b: 62; 2013: 87; Nefedieva and Nefediev 2008: 123; Nefediev et al. 2014: 63; Nefedieva et al. 2014: 65.

Material examined.

1 male (ASU), site 1; 1 female (ASU), site 8a.

Distribution.

The species appears to be quite widespread in the south of Siberia, Russia: Kemerovo Area, Republic of Khakassia, Altai Province, Republic of Altai, southern part of Krasnoyarsk Province, Republic of Tyva, Chita Area. Also it has been recorded in Eastern Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

Remarks.

The species inhabits forest litter of small-leaved, mixed and dark coniferous forests, under bark of logs and trees, and in mosses and mushrooms. The maximum altitude registered is about 1700 m a.s.l. ( Mikhaljova and Golovatch 2001). In the Kyga Biogeocenosis Profile the species is very rare collected from low- and mid-mountain chern taiga forest, with the maximum abundance registered is about 1 ind./m2.