Escaryus japonicus Attems, 1927 *

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

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Escaryus japonicus Attems, 1927 *
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29. Escaryus japonicus Attems, 1927 * View in CoL

Escaryus japonicus Attems 1927: 299.

Escaryus japonicus - Attems 1929: 96; Byzova and Chadaeva 1965: 333; Shinohara 1972: 66; Titova 1969: 165; 1972: 135; 1973: 113; Ghilarov and Perel 1973: 46; Molodova 1973: 67; Alekseeva 1974: 8; Kurcheva 1977: 45; Markelov and Mineeva 1981: 130; Ganin 1997: 105, 109, 112, 114, 121, 124, 126, 129, 134, 141; 2006: 501; Vorobiova 1999: 33; Farzalieva 2008: 67; Volkova 2016: 676; Dyachkov 2017: 454; Nefediev et al. 2017a: 11; 2017c: 222; Dyachkov and Tuf 2018: 296; Nefediev 2019: 25; Dyachkov and Farzalieva 2023: 229.

Type locality.

Japan: Hokkaido: “Todohokhe” ( Attems 1927).

Type series.

Syntypes: 2 specimens, including a male and a juvenile. Deposited in NHMW ( Ilie et al. 2009).

Diagnosis.

An Escaryus species with body length reaching ≥ 4.3 cm; clypeus with large plagulae; labral arc relatively shallow, with denticles long and obtuse; first maxillae with one pair of lappets; forcipular trochanteroprefemur with a small distal denticle, all other articles with very small bulges; 43-55 leg-bearing segments; metasternites with relatively sparse setae; metasternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment rectangular, ~ 2 × as long as wide; coxal pores of similar size, on both ventral and lateral sides of coxopleura; anal pores present.

Distribution.

Western Siberia: Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tomsk, and Kemerovo oblasts, republics of Altai and Khakassia ( Byzova and Chadaeva 1965; Titova 1972, 1973; Farzalieva 2008; Dyachkov 2017; Nefediev et al. 2017a, 2017c; Nefediev 2019). Eastern Siberia: Republic of Buryatia and Krasnoyarsk krai ( Alekseeva 1974; Titova 1973; Vorobiova 1999), Magadan oblast ( Berman and Leirikh 2019). Far East: Amur oblast, Maritime and Khabarovsk krais, Sakhalin oblast (Sakhalin Isl.) ( Titova 1973; Ghilarov and Perel 1973; Molodova 1973; Kurcheva 1977; Markelov and Mineeva 1981; Ganin 1997, 2006). Outside Asian Russia: European Russia ( Titova 1973; Farzalieva 2008; Volkova 2016), eastern Kazakhstan ( Dyachkov and Tuf 2018), Mongolia ( Dyachkov and Farzalieva 2023), Northern China ( Takakuwa and Takashima 1949), and Japan ( Attems 1927).

Remarks.

The record from the Krasnoyarsk krai by Vorobiova (1999) was questioned by Nefediev et al. (2017a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Chilopoda

Order

Geophilomorpha

Family

Schendylidae

Genus

Escaryus

Loc

Escaryus japonicus Attems, 1927 *

Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Bonato, Lucio 2024
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Escaryus japonicus

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Escaryus japonicus

Attems 1927
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