Lithobius piceus L. Koch, 1862

Dyachkov, Yurii V., Davoodi, Parisa & Zarei, Roghaieh, 2023, The Chilopoda fauna of the Hyrcanian ecoregion, Ecologica Montenegrina 70, pp. 46-59 : 54

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scientific name	Lithobius piceus L. Koch, 1862
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31. Lithobius piceus L. Koch, 1862 View in CoL

Lithobius piceus View in CoL – Zalesskaja 1972: 123; 1978: 78; Samedov et al. 1976: 76.

Lithobius piceus caucasica Muralewicz 1926: 33 View in CoL ; 1929: 68.

Lithobius piceus caucasica View in CoL – Zalesskaja 1978: 78.

Material. 1 ♀ ( ZCUMZ No. 6), Iran, Mazandaran Province, Menjiroud, Kinj Village, Nowshahr County, N36°24'28.377", E51°30'5.157", 1610 m, Quercus and Fagus forest, coll. P. Davoodi; 1 ♀ ( ZCUMZ No. 18), Darabkola village, Central District of Miandorud County, N36°33'39.02", E53°15'9.77", 120 m, Carpinus betulus , Parrotia persica , Quercus and Fagus forest; 2 ♀, 1 ♂ ( ZCUMZ No. 29, 31, 32), Gilan Province, Ghale roudkhan, Fouman County, Fouman city, N37°3'49.904", E49°14'30.588".

Records in the HE. Azerbaijan Republic: Lenkaran (as L. piceus caucasica, Muralewicz 1926 , 1929; Zalesskaja 1972; Samedov et al. 1976), Masally, Lerik, Astara, and Yardimli districts ( Zalesskaja 1972, 1978), Iran: Gilan and Mazandaran provinces (present record).

Distribution. Central Europe and Caucasus ( Zalesskaja 1978; Stoev 2007).

Remarks. L. piceus caucasica was synonymized under L. piceus by Zalesskaja (1978).

This species is new to the centipede fauna of Iran.

References

Muralewicz, W. S. (1926) Ubersicht uber die Chilopodenfauna des Kaukasus. II. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 69 (1 / 2), 27 - 44.

Muralewicz, W. S. (1929) Scutigeridae and Lithobiidae of the Caucasian fauna. Memoires de la Section Zoologique de la Societe des Amis des Sciences Naturelles, d'Anthropologie et d'Ethnographie, 4, 1 - 120 [in Russian].

Samedov, N. G., Bababekova, L. A. & Rakhmanov, R. R. (1976) To the knowledge of the fauna of centipedes (Myriopoda, Chilopoda) and their ecological structures in the soils of Azerbaijan. Proceedings of the SSR Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Biological Sciences Series, 2, 74 - 78. [in Russian, with a summary in Azerbaijani]

Stoev, P. (2007) Fauna and Zoogeography of Myriapoda in Bulgaria. In: Fet, V., Popov, A. (Eds.), Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria, 379 - 404.

Zalesskaja, N. T. (1972) Lithobiids of Caucasus (Chilopoda, Lithobiidae), its distribution and relations with soil. Ekologiya pochvennykh bespozvonochnykh. Nauka Publ., Moscow, 120 - 130. [in Russian]

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

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Chilopoda
Order	Lithobiomorpha
Family	Lithobiidae
Genus	Lithobius