Polydesmus abchasius Attems, 1898

Kokhia, M. S., Evsyukov, A. P. & Golovatch, S. I., 2020, Two interesting records of millipedes (Diplopoda) from near Borjomi, Georgia, Russian Entomological Journal 29 (1), pp. 121-122 : 121

Polydesmus abchasius Attems, 1898

MATERIAL. 1 ♀ ( ZMUM), Georgia, Borjomi , National Park, in litter, 30.X.2019, M.S. Kokhia leg.

REMARKS. The whole family Polydesmidae , including this easily recognizable species (usually intense red, with particularly broad and upturned paraterga), has recently been reviewed in the scope of the entire Caucasian fauna [ Golovatch et al., 2016]. The species has hitherto been recorded only from the western Caucasus within the Krasnodar Province, Abkhazia and western Georgia. Above is thus the first report of P. abchasius from central Georgia, apparently the species’ southeasternmost range limit. The same concerns Polydesmus s.str., a group of only rather few Euro-Mediterranean species.