Megaphyllum (Megaphyllum) spathulatum (Lohmander, 1936)

Vagalinski, Boyan & Golovatch, Sergei I., 2021, The millipede tribe Brachyiulini in the Caucasus (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae), ZooKeys 1058, pp. 1-127 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1058.68628

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7019381

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scientific name

Megaphyllum (Megaphyllum) spathulatum (Lohmander, 1936)
status

 

Megaphyllum (Megaphyllum) spathulatum (Lohmander, 1936)

Chromatoiulus (Chromatoiulus) spathulatus Lohmander, 1936: 104-109, figs 80-84.

Chromatoiulus (Chromatoiulus) spathulatus : Attems 1940: 306.

Chromatoiulus spathulus (sic!): Lang 1959: 1791.

Megaphyllum spathulatum : Golovatch 1990b: 364; 1992: 381; Lazányi and Vagalinski 2013: 87, fig. 18b-d; Kokhia and Golovatch 2018: 41; 2020: 206.

Material examined

(SMNG): Russia: RU12-86, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Republic of Adygea, Kamennomostkiy, northern end of Dakhovskaya Canyon near quarry, limestone cliffs, 44.2844°N, 40.1778°E, 430 m a.s.l., 24.VIII.2012, F. Walther leg. GoogleMaps ; RU12-051, 3 ♂♂, 1 juv., Dakhovskaya , limestone cliffs NW of, 44.2439°N, 40.1758°E, 800 m a.s.l., 13.VIII.2012, F. Walther leg. GoogleMaps ; 33579, 1 ♂, Republic of Adygea, Mount Shibaba , 21.V.2004, K. Voigtländer leg.

Diagnosis.

Differs from its only congener known from the Caucasus, M. (s. str.) Megaphyllum hercules , mainly by the colour pattern: body with a light yellow to ochre dorsum divided by a black axial line, vs. body uniformly dark with an orange to dark red mid-dorsal line in M. hercules ; and by the promere significantly tapering all the way to a narrowly rounded apex, vs. the same having mostly parallel side margins, ending with a flat apex in M. hercules .

Previous records from the Caucasus.

Western Caucasus (unspecified type locality) ( Lohmander 1936).

General distribution.

WCIS?

Remark.

This species seems to be a narrow local endemic of the northwestern foothills of the Caucasus Major, showing preferences for limestone terrain.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Julida

Family

Julidae

Genus

Megaphyllum

Loc

Megaphyllum (Megaphyllum) spathulatum (Lohmander, 1936)

Vagalinski, Boyan & Golovatch, Sergei I. 2021
2021
Loc

Chromatoiulus (Chromatoiulus) spathulatus

Lohmander 1936
1936
Loc

Chromatoiulus (Chromatoiulus) spathulatus

Lohmander 1936
1936