Strongylosoma stigmatosum (Eichwald, 1830)

Martynov, Alexander V., Petrenko, Nina A., Korzhova, Tetiana O. & Balashov, Igor A., 2021, Rediscovery of the Lohmander’s collection of Diplopoda from Ukraine, Ecologica Montenegrina 44, pp. 19-25 : 24-25

31. Strongylosoma stigmatosum (Eichwald, 1830) [as Strongylosoma pallipes Oliv. ]

Remarks: This species is represented by 35 samples in Lohmander’s collection at NMNH NASU. All of them were collected mainly after 1919 (only one sample is dated 1913). The material was determined in 1927 and later, when a number of subspecies and varieties for S. pallipes had already been described ( Sierwald & Spelda 2020). At the present time the nominative subspecies, S. pallipes pallipes , is considered as junior synonym of Strongylosoma stigmatosum (Eichwald, 1830) . Unfortunately, Lohmander (1928) published data only on new species from the discussed collection, and many other taxa were left unpublished. Moreover, the collection was considered lost, therefore Chornyi and Golovatch could not investigate it and relate Lohmander’s identifications to current systematics of Diplopoda during preparing of their overview paper on plain areas of Ukraine (Chornyi & Golovatch 1993). However, the synonymy given by us corresponds to the indication only S. stigmatosum by Chornyi & Golovatch (1993), other subspecies and varieties which are now considered as species were not mentioned by them for plain areas of Ukraine.

The preserved part of Lohmander’s Diplopoda collection numbers about 1500 specimens, and 57 of them are the syntypes of four taxa: Brachyiulus jawlowskii (6 specimens), Leptoiulus semenkevitschi (47 specimens), Megaphyllum kievense (4 specimens) and Polydesmus montanus ukrainicus (3 specimens). Except for these species and subspecies presented with type specimens, Lohmander’s collection in NMNH NASU contains material on 27 other species collected in Kyiv and its vicinities in the beginning of XX century (see collectors in Introduction).

To date, there are no check-list or overview paper on Diplopoda of all Ukraine, but Chornyi & Golovatch (1993) gave the list of species, key and short information on both local and general distribution of 50 diplopod species and subspecies of plain areas within Ukraine. This work was later contributed by several other papers on diplopods of Ukraine (e.g., Gologvatch 2010, 2011). The species list of Chornyi & Golovatch (1993) covered all species from Lohmander collection.

This paper is the first step in review of Lohmander’s collection of Diplopoda from Ukraine. It rediscovers the type specimens of four forms considered as lost. The provided species list of Diplopoda in the collection of NMNH NASU is aimed to arise interest in specialists for investigation of this historical material.