Strigamia cf. transsilvanica (Verhoeff, 1928)

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

20. Strigamia cf. transsilvanica (Verhoeff, 1928)

Scolioplanes transsilvanicus Verhoeff 1928: 278.

Scolioplanes transsilvanicus - Takakuwa 1938: 240; 1940: 123; Kurcheva 1977: 45.

Strigamia transsilvanicus - Ganin 1997: 121, 126.

Strigamia transsilvanica - Bonato et al. 2012: 19; 2023: 17.

Strigamia cf. transsilvanica - Zuev and Evsyukov 2016: 425; Nefediev et al. 2018: 237; Dyachkov 2018b: 255; Dyachkov et al. 2022: 75; Dyachkov and Zuev 2023: 159.

Type localities.

Romania: “Hermannstadt” = Sibiu. Slovenia: “Gottschee” = Kocevje. Austria: “Ostalpen” = Eastern Alps; “Hermagor”; “Arlberg”. Italy: "Schneelagern am Schlüsseljoch beim Brenner" = Colle della Chiave, near Brennero. Slovakia: “Tatra-Höhlenhain” = Tatranska Kotlina. Germany: “Titisee”. Switzerland: "Pilatus Kulm" ( Verhoeff 1928).

Diagnosis.

A species of Strigamia with clypeal setae uniformly spaced in a continuous array, without recognizable gaps between intermediate and lateral groups of setae; forcipular tarsungula not surpassing the anterior margin of the head; basal denticle of forcipular tarsungulum relatively large and with distinctly curved outlines; internal and external margins of forcipular tarsungulum gradually converging through the entire length; 43-57 leg-bearing segments; metasternites of the anterior part of the trunk without a mid-longitudinal sclerotized stripe; ultimate leg-bearing segment with pleuropretergite entire, i.e., without distinct intercalary pleurites, and metasternite approximately as long as wide.

Distribution.

Western Siberia: Altai krai ( Nefediev et al. 2018). Far East: Maritime krai, Sakhalin oblast (Sakhalin Isl.) ( Kurcheva 1977; Ganin 1997). Outside Asian Russia: westwards to Central Europe ( Iorio 2005; Reip and Voigtländer 2009).

Remarks.

Strigamia transsilvanica belongs to a species complex whose taxonomy is only partially resolved ( Bonato et al. 2023).

Bonato et al. (2012) suggested that the records from Russian Far East are probably due to misidentification of a different species. Nefediev et al. (2018) suggested the presence of a possible undescribed species similar in morphology to S. transsilvanica from Western Siberia, so that also the presence of S. transsilvanica in Western Siberia is doubtful. Doubtful are also the records from European Russia and Caucasus ( Zuev and Evsyukov 2016; Dyachkov et al. 2022; Dyachkov and Zuev 2023), Eastern Kazakhstan ( Dyachkov 2018b), Japan, and Taiwan ( Bonato et al. 2012).

Family Mecistocephalidae Bollman, 1893