The millipede family Polydesmidae in the Caucasus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) Author Golovatch, Sergei Author Evsyukov, Aleksandr Author Reip, Hans text Zootaxa 2016 2016-03-01 4085 1 1 51 journal article 31448 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.1 429cf011-ec4c-4a61-b894-2bd32b2ffc9b 1175-5326 1052381 7F819439-FD77-4EF2-8E26-7B46F9B5FAAB Brachydesmus ( Eubrachydesmus ) superus Latzel, 1884 Fig. 9 , Map 3 Brachydesmus superus— Muralewicz, 1907 : 340 , 349 (R); 1927: 6 (R); Zuev, 2014 : 349 (R). FIGURE 9. Brachydesmus superus Latzel, 1884 . A: habitus, entire body, dorsal view, male from Stavropol, Russia. B: left gonopod, male from Zheleznovodsk, Stavropol Prov., Russia. Designation: pu , hairy pulvillus. Picture A taken by R. Zuev. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A), 0.1 mm (B). Material examined. 5 males , 11 females ( ZMUM ), RUSSIA , Stavropol Prov., Zheleznovodsk , park at foot of Mt Zheleznaya , litter and under stones, 30.V.1982 , leg. S. Golovatch. 5 males , 7 females ( ZMUM ), ABKHAZIA , Nizhnyaya Yashtukha near 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).