Schizoturanius tabescens (Stuxberg, 1876)

Nefedieva, Julia S., Nefediev, Pavel S., Sakhnevich, Miroslava B. & Dyachkov, Yuri V., 2015, Distribution of millipedes along an altitudinal gradient in the south of Lake Teletskoye, Altai Mts, Russia (Diplopoda), ZooKeys 510, pp. 141-161 : 150

Schizoturanius tabescens (Stuxberg, 1876)

Polydesmus tabescens Stuxberg, 1876a: 35, figs.

Polydesmus tabescens - Stuxberg 1876b: 316; Lokšina and Golovatch 1979: 385.

Turanodesmus salairicus Gulička, 1963: 523, 522: figs; Nefediev and Nefedieva 2008a: 117.

Schizoturanius salairicus - Lokšina and Golovatch 1979: 384; Mikhaljova 1993: 31; Nefediev 2001: 84, 2002a: 40; 2002b: 35; 2002c: 139; 2002d: 30; Mikhaljova and Golovatch 2001: 116; Mikhaljova and Nefediev 2003: 83.

Schizoturanius tabescens - Mikhaljova 1993: 31, 32: figs; 2004: 240-242, 241: figs, 242: map; 2013b: 221; Vorobiova 1999: 33; Mikhaljova and Golovatch 2001: 116; Vorobiova et al. 2002: 60; Rybalov 2002; Mikhaljova and Marusik 2004: 8, 7: figs; Nefediev 2005a: 64; 2005b: 9; Nefediev and Nefedieva 2005: 178; 2006: 98; 2007a: 139; 2007b: 161; 2007c: 102; 2008a: 117; 2008b: 62; 2011: 100; 2012a: 51; 2012b: 47; 2013: 87; Nefedieva and Nefediev 2008: 123; Babenko et al. 2009: 183; Nefedieva et al. 2014: 65.

Material examined.

3 juv. (ASU), site 2; 2 females, 2 juv., 1 fragm. (ASU), site 4; 4 juv. (ASU), site 5; 17 juv. (ASU), site 7; 2 females, 1 juv. (ASU), site 8a; 1 female (ASU), site 9; 2 females (ASU), site B.

Distribution.

Being rather widespread, the species is known to occur in the south of Siberia, Russia: Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo areas, Altai Province, Republic of Altai, Republic of Khakassia, southern part of Krasnoyarsk Province.

Remarks.

This species lives in different forests like small-leaved, mixed and dark coniferous ones, and also populates meadows. In the Kyga Biogeocenosis Profile the animal prefers low- and mid-mountain chern taiga forests, where its numbers range from 0.5 to 8 ind./m2, but also collected from subalpine sparse growths of Pinus sibirica at about 1900 m a.s.l.