Trachysphaera costata (Waga, 1857)

Golovatch, S. I., 2023, New records of millipedes (Diplopoda) from the Caucasus and Crimea, Russian Entomological Journal 32 (3), pp. 356-359 : 356

Trachysphaera costata (Waga, 1857)

MATERIAL. 3 ex. (ZMUM), Russia , North Ossetia – Alania , Mayramadag River , Fagus forest , rotting wood, 635 m a.s.l., N 43.005312, E 44.486156, 18.V.2023; 1 ex. (ZMUM), North Ossetia – Alania, Russia, near Koban, Gizeldon River, 966 m a.s.l., Alnus forest, rotting wood, N 42.917148, E 44.486985, 23.V.2023, all M. Antipova leg. ; 1 ex. (ZMUM), Russia , ChechenRepublic ,VedenoDistr., Tevzany , N42.985637º, E 45.896675º, bank of Jalka River, Alnus floodplain forest, litter, 18.X.2021, K.B. Gongalsky & D.I. Korobushkin leg .

REMARKS. A widespread Eastern European to Eastern Mediterranean species ranging from Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula in the west, through Ukraine, Crimea, and the Near East, to the entire Caucasus region, including much of Hyrcania in Iran in the east. In the Caucasus, it is known from Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia and Russia (Adygea, Krasnodar and Stavropol provinces, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan) [Evsyukov et al., 2022].