Geophilus flavus (De Geer, 1778)

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

5. Geophilus flavus (De Geer, 1778)

Geophilus longicornis Leach 1815: 386 (synonymy by Stuxberg 1871: 508).

Arthronomalus longicornis - Gerstfeldt 1859: 275; Sseliwanoff 1884: 90.

Necrophloeophagus longicornis - Brolemann 1930: 151.

Schizotaenia ornata Folkmanová & Dobroruka, 1960: 1816 (synonymy by Bonato and Minelli 2014: 41).

Geophilus flavus - Nefediev et al. 2017a: 9.

Type locality.

Unknown, possibly in France ( Bonato and Minelli 2014).

Diagnosis.

A species of Geophilus with head ~ 1.2 × as long as wide; antennal articles ≤ 2 × as long as wide; second maxillary pretarsus claw-like, longer than surrounding setae; forcipular trochanteroprefemur ~ 1.5 × as long as wide; forcipular trochanteroprefemur, femur, and tibia without denticles; tarsungulum bearing a small basal denticle; 37-61 leg-bearing segments; “carpophagus” pits absent; ventral pore-fields present, an entire transverse posterior band on the anterior metasternites, two paired posterior groups on the posterior metasternites; metasternite of ultimate leg-bearing segment wider than long; up to a dozen coxal pores on each coxopleuron, all close to the margin of metasternite; pretarsus of ultimate leg pair claw-like; anal pores present.

Distribution.

Western Siberia: Tomsk oblast ( Nefediev et al. 2017a). Eastern Siberia: Zabaykalsky krai ( Gerstfeldt 1859, as Arthronomalus longicornis ). Outside Asian Russia: Western Palaearctic (e.g., Bonato et al. 2005; Stoev 2007).

Remarks.

The record from Western Siberia seems to be due to anthropochore introduction ( Nefediev et al. 2017a), while the record from Eastern Siberia requires confirmation (see Discussion).