Kirkayakus pallidus ( Gulicka , 1972)

Nefedieva, Julia S., Nefediev, Pavel S., Sakhnevich, Miroslava B. & Dyachkov, Yuri V., 2015, Distribution of millipedes along an altitudinal gradient in the south of Lake Teletskoye, Altai Mts, Russia (Diplopoda), ZooKeys 510, pp. 141-161 : 148-149

Kirkayakus pallidus ( Gulicka, 1972)

Altajella pallida (syn. Gulička, 1972)

Altajella pallida Gulička, 1972: 42, 43: figs.

Altajella pallida - Lokšina and Golovatch 1979: 383; Shear 1988: 51; Mikhaljova 1993: 34; 2004: 196-199, 197: figs, 105: map; Shelley et al. 2000: 61; Mikhaljova and Golovatch 2001: 111, 112: figs; Nefediev 2005a: 58; 2005b: 9; Nefediev and Nefedieva 2007b: 161; 2008a: 117; 2008b: 62; Nefedieva and Nefediev 2008: 123.

Kirkayakus pallidus - Özdikmen 2008: 342; Nefediev and Nefedieva 2013: 87; Nefedieva et al. 2014: 65.

Material examined.

1 male (ASU), site 8; 1 female (ASU), site 9.

Distribution.

This species is an endemic in the south of Lake Teletskoye, Republic of Altai, Siberia, Russia.

Remarks.

The species lives in dark coniferous forests up to 1350 m a.s.l. ( Mikhaljova and Golovatch 2001). In the Kyga Biogeocenosis Profile the animal prefers mid-mountain dark coniferous forests at 1100-1414 m a.s.l., when it is very rare, and the numbers range from 0.5 to 1 ind./m2. The above material appears to belong to topotypes, and this is the first record of the female specimen in this species.