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Lithobius (Ezembius) giganteus Sseliwanoff, 1881

Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh., 2023, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Mongolia, Ecologica Montenegrina 64, pp. 221-241 : 230-231

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 Lithobius (Ezembius) giganteus Sseliwanoff, 1881
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11. Lithobius (Ezembius) giganteus Sseliwanoff, 1881 View in CoL Type locality: Zavkhan Aimag: [ZA2] ( Sseliwanoff 1881c, 1881d).

Lithobius giganteus Sseliwanoff 1881c: 3 View in CoL (12 specimens: ♂ ♀); 1881d: 15.

Lithobius giganteus View in CoL – Dobroruka 1960: 15 (16♂♂, 12 ♀♀); 1970: 94; Ulykpan 1988: 221.

Lithobius (Ezembius) giganteus View in CoL – Eason 1986a: 190; 1986b: 49, 58; 1997: 117 (24♂♂, 8 ♀♀); Ma et al. 2014: 341 View Cited Treatment ; Poloczek et al. 2016: 117 (145 specimens); 2021: 320; Dyachkov 2017a: 35 View Cited Treatment (14♂♂, 11♀♀).

Paobius jangtseanus – Loksa 1965: 213 (41♂♂, 23 ♀♀); 1978: 115 (> 100♂ ♀); Ulykpan 1988: 221. Lithobius View in CoL ( Porobius ?) mongolicus Verhoeff 1934: 34 View in CoL (2♀♀).

Lithobius cacodontus View in CoL – Ulykpan 1988: 221.

Material. Bayan-Ölgii Aimag: 1♂ (ISEA chilop-3), [Bay9], stony steppe, under stones, 14.IX.2019, coll. YD ; 1♀ ( SMNG-VNR), [Bay10], meadow near river, under stones, 10.VI.2022, coll. HR & FW ; 1♀, 1 juv., 2 fragm. ( SMNG-VNR), [Bay11], 6.VI.2022, coll. HR & FW ; 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ ( SMNG-VNR), [Bay12], meadow on stream valley, under stones, 3.VI.2022, coll. HR & FW ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( SMNG-VNR), [Bay13], 3.VI.2022, coll. HR & FW ; 1♂ ( SMNG-VNR), [Bay14], 4.VI.2022, coll. HR & FW ; 1♀, 1 juv.♀ ( SMNG-VNR), [Bay15], dry meadow, 3.VI.2022, coll. HR & FW ; 1 juv. ( SMNG-VNR), [Bay16], meadow with Caragana on river valley, 12.VI.2022, coll. HR & FW ; 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, 2 agenitalis (PSU-666), [Bay1], mountain stony steppe with rocks, 14.VII.2015, coll. AF; 1♀ (PSU-667), [Bay30], rocky mountain steppe with rock outcrops, coll. AF; Khovd Aimag : 1♂ (ASU No. 36) and 3♂♂, 5♀♀ (ASU No. 38) [KHo17], stony alpine meadow, 11–12.VII.2017, coll. RY; 3♂♂, 2♀♀ (ASU No. 37) and 3♂♂, 2♀♀ (ASU N. 318), [KHo20], loess bluff in stony steppe with rocks, 23.VI.2017, coll. AF, VR; 3 ♂, 1 ♀ (ISEA chilop-4), [KHo21], stony desert, river bank, under stones, 15.IX.2019, coll. YD; 1♀ (ISEA chilop-5), [KHo22], stony desert, under stones, 16.IX.2019, coll. YD; 3♂♂, 2♀♀ (PSU-669), [KHo12], rocky mountain steppe with rock outcrops and talus, 30–31.V.2015, coll. AF; 2 ♀♀ (PSU-683), [KHo6], alpine meadow with rocks and screes, 4.VII.2015, DN; 1 male (PSU-684), [KHo23], 24.V.2015, coll. RY; Govi-Altai Aimag: 2♂♂ (ZISP chilo-90), [GO2], 24–25.VII.1985, coll. AG ; 6 ♂♂, 3 juv. ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, 3 juv. ♀♀ (HNHM chilo-7640), [GO6], stony alpine meadow, 04–05.VII.2017, coll. RY, VR; 3♂♂, 4♀♀ (ZMMU Rc 7893), [GO11], stony steppe with rocks, 30.VI.2017, coll. AF; Ulaanbaatar city: 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( SMNG-VNR), [ UL8 ], meadow on stream valley, 14.VI.2022, coll. HR & FW ; Arkhangai Aimag: 3♂♂, 4♀♀ (PSU-732), [AR6], pastures near the camp, 01.VIII.1979, coll. unknown ; Bayankhongor Aimag: 1♀ (PSU-927), [BAk5], next to the stream, 26.VII.1970, coll. unknown ; 2♂♂, 6♀♀ ( ZISP), [BAk6], 21–23.VIII.1926, coll. AK ; Khövsgöl Aimag: 5 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, 8 agenitalis ( ZMMU), [KHö8], 04.VIII.1982, coll. KU [?] ; Ömnögovi Aimag: 1 ♀ ( ZMMU), [ ÖM3 ], semi-desert, bow, in cracks, stones, 03–10.IX.1982, coll. YP .

Previous records. Bayan-Ölgii: [Bay1], [Bay2], [Bay3], [Bay4], [Bay5], [Bay6] ( Loksa 1978; Dyachkov 2017a); Uvs: [UV1], [UV2], [UV3] ( Loksa 1978); Khovd: [KHo2], [KHo4], [KHo6], [KHo8], [KHo10], [KHo13], [KHo18], [KHo19] ( Loksa 1978; Dyachkov 2017a); Zavkhan: [ZA1] ( Loksa 1965, 1978), [ZA2] ( Sseliwanoff 1881c, 1881d); Govi-Altai: [GO3], [GO4], [GO7], [GO8], [GO12] ( Loksa 1978); Khövsgöl: [KHö1], [KHö2], [KHö3], [KHö4], [KHö5], [KHö6], [KHö7]; Arkhangai: [AR1], [AR2], [AR3], [AR4], [AR5]; Bayankhongor: [Bak1], [Bak2], [Bak3]; Bulgan: [BU1], [BU3] ( Loksa 1965, 1978); Övörkhangai: [ÖV1], [ÖV3], [ÖV4], [ÖV5] ( Dobroruka 1960; Loksa 1965, 1978); Ömnögovi: [ÖM1], [ÖM2] ( Loksa 1978); Selenge: [SE1] ( Poloczek et al. 2016); Töv: [Tö1], [Tö2], [Tö3], [Tö5], [Tö6], [Tö7], [Tö8], [Tö9], [Tö10] ( Loksa 1978; Poloczek et al. 2016); Ulaanbaatar city: [UL1], [UL2], [UL3], [UL4], [UL5], [UL6], [UL7] ( Dobroruka 1960; Loksa 1965, 1978; Poloczek et al. 2016); Dundgobi: [DU1], [DU2], [DU3], [DU4]; Khentii: [Kh1], [Kh2], [Kh3], [Kh4]; Dornod: [DO1] ( Loksa 1978); Sükhbaatar: [Sü1] ( Loksa 1978); “Südmongolei” ( Verhoeff 1934, as L. mongolicus ).

Distribution. Afghanistan ( Eason 1986b), Kyrgyzstan ( Zalesskaja 1978; Dyachkov et al. 2022a), Mongolia ( Zalesskaja 1978; Poloczek et al. 2016; Dyachkov 2017a), northern China ( Ma et al. 2014), Russia: Western and Eastern Siberia ( Zalesskaja 1978; Nefediev & Farzalieva 2020).

Remarks. Specimens of Paobius jangtseanus provided by Loksa (1965) belong to Lithobius giganteus ( Loksa 1978: 115) .

Dobroruka, L. J. (1960) Uber eine kleine Chilopoden-Ausbeute aus der Mongolei. Acta Arachnologica, 17, 15 - 18.

Dyachkov Yu. V., Farzalieva G. Sh. & Tuf I. H. (2022 a) An annotated checklist of centipedes (Chilopoda) of Middle Asian countries, part 1. Lithobiomorpha. Zootaxa, 5100 (2), 151 - 188. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5100.2.1

Dyachkov, Yu. V. (2017 a) New records of lithobiid centipedes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from Western Mongolia. Far Eastern Entomologist, 345, 34 - 36. http: // doi. org / 10.25221 / fee. 345.2

Eason, E. H. (1986 a) On the synonymy of Lithobius giganteus Sseliwanoff, 1881 and the taxonomic status of Porobius Attems, 1926 (Chilopoda). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 87, 181 - 192.

Eason, E. H. (1986 b) The Lithobiidae of Afghanistan with descriptions of three new species of the giganteusgroup of Lithobius subgenus Ezembius, and a key to the central Asiatic species of this group (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha). Steenstrupia, 12, 49 - 60.

Loksa, I. (1965) Zoologische Ergebnisse der Forschungen von Dr. Z. Kaszab in der Mongolei. 21. Chilopoda. Opuscula Zoologica, Instituti Zoosystematici Universitatis Budapestinensis, 5, 199 - 215.

Loksa, I. (1978) Chilopoden aus der Mongolei (Arthropoda: Tracheata, Chilopoda). Annales Historico- Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 70, 111 - 120.

Ma, H. - Q., Pei, S. - J., Hou, X. - J., Zhu, T. - G., Wu, D. - Y. & Gai, Y. - H. (2014) An annotated checklist of Lithobiomorpha of China. Zootaxa, 3847 (3), 333 - 358.

Poloczek, A., Pfeiffer, M., Schneider, R. & Muchlenberg, M. (2016) The Chilopoda (Myriapoda) of the Khentey-Mountain Range, northern Mongolia. Communities of different forest-types under a varying fire regime. European Journal of Soil Biology, 74, 114 - 120.

Sseliwanoff, A. V. (1881 c) Lithobiidae deposited in the Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Zapiski Akademii Nauk. St. Petersburg, 37 (1), 1 - 19 [in Russian].

Sseliwanoff, A. V. (1881 d) Neue Lithobiiden aus Sibirien und Centralasien. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 4 (73), 15 - 17.

Ulykpan, K. (1988) Species composition and distribution of Myriapoda of Mongolia. Memoir of the National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbataar, 99 (3), 217 - 223. [In Mongolian]

Verhoeff, K. W. (1934) Schwedisch-chinesische wissenschaftliche Expedition nach den nordwestlichen Provinzen Chinas unter Leitung von Dr. Sven Hedin und Prof. Su Ping-chang. Myriapoda. Arkiv for Zoologi, 26 a (10), 1 - 41.

Zalesskaja, N. T. (1978) Identification book of the lithobiomorph centipedes of the USSR (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). Nauka publ., Moscow, 212 pp. [in Russian]

ZISP

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
ZMMU

Zoological Museum, Moscow Lomonosov State University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Chilopoda

Order

Lithobiomorpha

Family

Lithobiidae

Genus

Lithobius

Specimens