Escaryus koreanus Takakuwa, 1937 *

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30. Escaryus koreanus Takakuwa, 1937 *

Escaryus koreanus Takakuwa 1937a: 297.

Escaryus koreanus - Takakuwa 1940: 39; Titova 1972: 135; 1973: 112; Ghilarov and Perel 1973: 46; Kurcheva 1977: 45; Ganin 1997: 105, 109, 112, 114, 121, 124, 126, 128; 2006: 501; Rybalov 2002: 83; Vorobiova et al. 2002: 62; Nefediev et al. 2017a: 11; 2017c: 222; 2018: 238; Dyachkov 2017: 454; Dyachkov and Tuf 2018: 296; Nefediev 2019: 26.

Type locality.

North Korea: “Husenzan” ( Takakuwa 1937a).

Type series.

Syntypes: unknown number of specimens, both sexes. Depository unknown.

Diagnosis.

An Escaryus species with body length reaching ≥ 6.5 cm; clypeus with large plagulae; labral arc relatively shallow, with long denticles, the middle denticles obtuse, the lateral ones pointed; first maxillae with one pair of lappets; forcipular trochanteroprefemur with an small obtuse denticle, femur and tibia without denticles, tarsungulum with a small basal bulge; 43-55 leg-bearing segments; metasternites with relatively dense setae; metasternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment rectangular, ~ 2 × as long as wide; coxal pores of different size, on both ventral and lateral sides of coxopleura, including a pair of much larger pores on each coxopleuron; anal pores present.

Distribution.

Western Siberia: Altai krai, republics of Altai and Khakassia, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, and Tomsk oblasts ( Titova 1972, 1973; Dyachkov 2017; Nefediev et al. 2017a, 2017c, 2018; Nefediev 2019). Eastern Siberia: Krasnoyarsk krai, Irkutskaya oblast ( Rybalov 2002; Vorobiova et al. 2002; Nefediev 2019). Far East: Maritime and Khabarovsk krais, Amur Oblast ( Titova 1972, 1973; Ghilarov and Perel 1973; Kurcheva 1977; Ganin 1997). Outside Asian Russia: Eastern Kazakhstan ( Dyachkov and Tuf 2018), Japan, and North Korea ( Takakuwa 1937a, 1940).

Remarks.

Titova (1973: 113) suggested that E. koreanus can be a junior synonym of E. sibiricus Cook, 1899.