Polydesmus angustus Latzel, 1884

Gilgado, José D. & Ortuño, Vicente M., 2023, Polydesmid millipedes in the MSS of the northern Iberian Peninsula (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae), Zoosystema 45 (15), pp. 451-461 : 456

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a15

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8397820

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Polydesmus angustus Latzel, 1884
status

 

Polydesmus angustus Latzel, 1884 View in CoL View at ENA

( Figs 3B View FIG ; 4B View FIG )

Polydesmus angustus Latzel, 1884: 262 View in CoL .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Spain • 1 ♀; Palencia, Piedras Luengas, Hoyo de los Lobos , Las Lombas , Forest ; 43°02’42”N, 04°28’16”W; 1300 m a.s.l.; 20. VI.2016; V. M. Ortuño, J. D. Gilgado & E. Ledesma leg.; MSS; UAH GoogleMaps 1♂; same data; 25. VI.2019; UAH GoogleMaps 1♂; Palencia, Sierra de Peña Labra, Piedras Luengas , bare scree; 43°02’21”N, 04°26’55”W; 1520 m a.s.l.; 21. VI.2018; V. M. Ortuño, J. D. Gilgado & E. Ledesma leg.; MSS; UAH GoogleMaps 3 ♂; Cantabria, Pesaguero, Sierra Mediana, Collado de la Cruz de las Cabezuelas , forest; 43°04’19”N, 04°28’18”W; 1050 m a.s.l.; 27. VI.2017; V. M. Ortuño, J. D. Gilgado & E. Ledesma leg; MSS; UAH GoogleMaps 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same data; MNHN GoogleMaps 5 ♂, 3 ♀; same data; 31.X.2018; UAH GoogleMaps 33 ♂, 7♀; same data; 21. VI.2018; UAH GoogleMaps 9♂, 6♀; same data; 22. VI.2019; UAH GoogleMaps 121 ♂, 20 ♀; same data; 1.IX.2021; UAH GoogleMaps .

REMARKS

The species has a wide distribution in western Europe, namely in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and France, including the northern part of the Pyrenees, and several other countries ( Kime & Enghoff 2011). This species was reported in Spain for the first time by Mauriès (1971), in the province of Lerida, in the Catalonian Pyrenees, and according to Kime & Enghoff (2011) the species had not been recorded in the Atlantic zone of Spain. Djusrvoll (2019) states that this species occurs in the Atlantic zone, in the provinces of Alava and Asturias, but he provides no capture information or bibliographic references. The present record from Pesaguero confirms the occurence of the species in the Atlantic region of Spain. However, it is not clear whether this region was part of its native distribution range, whether it has been recently colonized due to natural dispersal of the species ( Hauser & Voigtländer 2009) or whether it is the result of anthropogenic introduction events (it has been introduced in North America, see for example Shelley (2002) or Kime & Enghoff (2011)). Interestingly, Polydesmus angustus was found in syntopy with P.coriaceus , the most common polydesmid in the present study.

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Polydesmida

Family

Polydesmidae

Genus

Polydesmus

Loc

Polydesmus angustus Latzel, 1884

Gilgado, José D. & Ortuño, Vicente M. 2023
2023
Loc

Polydesmus angustus

LATZEL R. 1884: 262
1884
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