Schendyla sp.

Dyachkov, Yurii V., Zuev, Roman V. & Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A., 2022, Centipedes (Chilopoda) from the Dagestan, northern Caucasus, Russia, Ecologica Montenegrina 52, pp. 68-89 : 76

Schendyla sp.

Figs 30–33 .

Material. 1 mutilated ♀ ( ZMUS), Dagestan, near Izberbash city, Izberbash mountain , Quercus spinney, in leaf litter, N42°33'46", E47°50'41", 160 m, 6.VI.2021, coll. RZ, EB .

Remarks. Identification is impossible because lacking of the ultimate legs. The specimen differs from both North Caucasian Schendyla species ( Folkmanová & Dobroruka 1960; Zuev 2016): from S. verneri ( Folkmanová & Dobroruka, 1960) by lacking of small denticle on forcipular trochanteroprefemur; from S. nemorensis (C.L. Koch, 1837) in the number of both LBS (33 vs. 37–45 in S. nemorensis ), and labral teeth (10 vs. 15 in S. nemorensis ), and by small ventral pore-fields.

Both genus Schendyla and family Schendylidae are new to the fauna of the Dagestan.

Figures

Figures 30–33. Schendyla sp. (ZMUS; ♀), ventrally: 30 – right forcipula; 31 – labrum; 32 – 4th metasternite; 33 – left coxopleuron of ultimate LBS. Abbreviations: cp – coxopleural pores, d – denticles, pf – pore field. Scale: 0.1 mm (30), 0.05 mm (31–33).