Brachyiulus jawlowskii Lohmander, 1928

Vagalinski, Boyan & Golovatch, Sergei I., 2021, The millipede tribe Brachyiulini in the Caucasus (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae), ZooKeys 1058, pp. 1-127 : 1

Brachyiulus jawlowskii Lohmander, 1928

Brachyiulus jawlowskii Lohmander, 1928: 536-538, fig. 8.

Brachyiulus jawlowskii : Zuev 2014: 351.

Diagnosis.

Differs from its only congener known from the Caucasus, B. lusitanus Verhoeff, 1898, mainly by the opisthomere possessing a smooth rather than striated lateral process, and a slightly rather than strongly bent anterior process.

Material examined.

2 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀ (ZMUM), Georgia: AR Abkhazia, Pitsunda, Bzyb River Valley , meadow with a few Buxus trees, in litter, 8.IV.1983, SIG leg .

Previous records from the Caucasus.

Russia: southern Rostov-on-Don Region and Stavropol ( Evsyukov and Golovatch 2013; Zuev 2014).

General distribution.

From eastern Poland in the west to southwestern Siberia, Russia and western Kazakhstan in the east ( Nefediev et al. 2014, Kime and Enghoff 2017); subendemic to the Russian [= East European] Plain ( Wytwer et al. 2009; Zuev 2014).

Remarks.

The species is new to the fauna of AR Abkhazia. It has already been known from the Caucasus region, reported by Zuev (2014) from a farm in the city of Stavropol, while the current record marks the southernmost locality of its known range. The occurrences of this species both at Stavropol and in Abkhazia seem to be synanthropic.