Brachydesmus Muralewicz, 1907 : 340 Zuev, 2014 : 349 The millipede family Polydesmidae in the Caucasus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) Golovatch, Sergei Evsyukov, Aleksandr Reip, Hans Zootaxa 2016 2016-03-01 4085 1 1 51 84Z92 Latzel, 1884 Latzel 1884 [151,824,151,178] Diplopoda Polydesmidae Brachydesmus GBIF Animalia Polydesmida 17 18 Arthropoda species superus Eubrachydesmus     Brachydesmussuperus—  Muralewicz, 1907: 340, 349 (R); 1927: 6 (R);  Zuev, 2014: 349(R).    Material examined. 5 males, 11 females( ZMUM),  RUSSIA, StavropolProv., Zheleznovodsk, park at foot of Mt Zheleznaya, litter and under stones,  30.V.1982, leg. S. Golovatch.   5 males, 7 females( ZMUM),  ABKHAZIA, Nizhnyaya Yashtukhanear Sukhumi, tobacco plantation,  29.III.1987, leg. A. Markossian.  Descriptive notes.Length ca 6.5 –10 mm, width of midbody metazonae 0.8 –1.2 mm(male, female), metazonite to prozonite width ratio <1.6 ( Fig. 9 A). Live coloration usually uniformly light grey-brown to pallid. All characters as in  B. assimilis( Fig. 9), except as follows. Tegument particularly shiny ( Fig. 9 A). Paraterga mostly poorly declivous, only slightly rounded laterally; caudolateral corner obtuse-angled only until segment 6, pointed or nearly pointed and increasingly well drawn behind rear tergal margin starting with segment 11 or 12 ( Fig. 9A). Fore margins of paraterga largely straight, anterolateral corner angular. Tergal setae a little longer, mostly sharp. Male prefemora strongly bulging laterad. Gonopod ( Fig. 9B) unipartite, slender, only slightly falcate, ventrally with several teeth or spines and a prominent hairy pulvillus ( pu) in distal part.   Remarks.Zuev’s (2014) claim for the first record of this ubiquitous anthropochore species in the Caucasus (at Stavropol) is wrong, as he had overlooked Muralewicz’s (1907, 1927) reports from Vladikavkaz, from between Balta and Lars, N Ossetia, and from Sukhumi, Abkhazia. However, those two latter records are not mapped here pending verification (Map 3). 1701200768 1982-05-30 ZMUM S. Golovatch. Russia Mt Zheleznaya Zheleznovodsk 18 19 16 11 5 Stavropol 1701200777 1987-03-29 ZMUM A. Markossian. Sukhumi Nizhnyaya Yashtukha 18 19 12 7 5 ABKHAZIA