Bothriogaster signata ( Kessler, 1874 )

Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, Ecologica Montenegrina 53, pp. 8-24 : 11-12

2. Bothriogaster signata ( Kessler, 1874)

Type locality: Samarkand ( Kessler 1874).

Fig. 3 .

Geophilus signatus Kessler 1874: 41 .

Bothriogaster signatus – Sseliwanoff 1879: 621; 1881a: 21; 1881b: 230; 1884: 101–102; Attems 1904: 115.

Bothriogaster signata – Lignau 1929a: 162–163; Verhoeff 1930: 258–260; Titova 1969: 165; 1978: 241; Dobroruka 1979: 164; Stoev 2000: 200; Dyachkov 2020a: 62–63 ; 2020c: 80–81 ; Dyachkov & Nedoev 2021: 43 ; Dyachkov et al. 2022b: 74–75 .

Bothriogaster egyptica [sic] – Titova 1978: 241; Sabirova 1990: 42, 45.

Bothriogaster signata graeca – Loksa 1971: 109.

Previous records. Kabul: [Kab2], [Kab7], [Kab8], [Kab9], Balch: [Bal2], and Badakchan: [Bad1] provinces; uncertain locality: “Darreh- Beltcheragh” ( Loksa 1971).

Habitat records. In a ground depression; under wet litter and stones on 1820 m; rocky canyon; on the bottom of a cave; under plants and stones; unknown habitats on 1500, 1970 m ( Loksa 1971).

Distribution. Mostly Turano-Mediterranean Region ( Zapparoli 1991; Stoev 2000; Zarei et al. 2020; Dyachkov 2020a; Dyachkov et al. 2022b).

Remarks. Material is in SMF.

Figures

Figure 3. Provinces of Afghanistan where Bothriogaster signata (Kessler, 1874) has been reported.