Strigamia sacolinensis (Meinert, 1870) *

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

17. Strigamia sacolinensis (Meinert, 1870) *

Scolioplanes sacolinensis Meinert 1870: 53.

Scolioplanes sacolinensis - Sseliwanoff 1881: 16; 1884: 93; Attems 1903a: 46; 1903b: 267; 1929: 224; Molodova 1973: 67; Kurcheva 1977: 46.

Strigamia sacolinensis - Ganin 1997: 134; Bonato et al. 2012: 18.

Type locality.

Russia: Sakhalin oblast: "Sartung paa Oen Sacalin" ( Meinert 1870) = “Sartung” (see Remarks), Sakhalin Isl.

Type series.

Holotype: female. Deposited in NHMD.

Diagnosis.

A species of Strigamia with forcipular tarsungula surpassing the anterior margin of the head; 43-47 leg-bearing segments; metasternites of the anterior part of the trunk without a mid-longitudinal sclerotized stripe.

Distribution.

Far East: Khabarovsk krai ( Sseliwanoff 1881, 1884) and Sakhalin oblast (Sakhalin Isl.) ( Meinert 1870; Molodova 1973; Kurcheva 1977; Ganin 1997). Outside Asian Russia: no records.

Remarks.

Bonato et al. (2012) suggested the putative projection of the forcipules in front of the anterior margin of the head can be due to some post-mortem displacement of the head with respect to the trunk. Based on the incomplete description provided by Meinert (1870), this nominal species could be a senior synonym of either S. hirsutipes or S. japonica (Verhoeff, 1935).

The current identity and position of the locality “Sartung” (indicated by Meinert 1870) is uncertain.