The millipede family Polydesmidae in the Caucasus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) Author Golovatch, Sergei Author Evsyukov, Aleksandr Author Reip, Hans text Zootaxa 2016 2016-03-01 4085 1 1 51 journal article 31448 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.1 429cf011-ec4c-4a61-b894-2bd32b2ffc9b 1175-5326 1052381 7F819439-FD77-4EF2-8E26-7B46F9B5FAAB Polydesmus (s. str.) muralewiczi Lohmander, 1936 Figs 3A, 3H 3J , 4C, 4D , Map 1 Polydesmus complanatus Muralewicz, 1927 : 7 (R). Polydesmus ( Polydesmus ) muralewiczi Lohmander, 1936 : 9 (D). Polydesmus ( Polydesmus ) lignaui muralewiczi— Attems, 1940 : 21 (D). Polydesmus muralewiczi— Lang, 1959 : 1790 (M); Kobakhidze, 1965 : 391 (R); Lokšina and Golovatch, 1979 : 384 (M); Talikadze, 1984 : 143 (R); Zuev, 2014 : 348 (R, D). Material examined. 1 male (lectotype, designated herewith), 1 female (paralectotype, designated herewith), “Typen” (ZISP), RUSSIA , Kuban Region, Station Psebai, under stones during ascent to Hill Gerisgel, 20.V.1911 , leg. D. Volnukhin; 4 juv. (ZMUM), Krasnodar Prov., Mostovskoy Distr., Shedok, N of Psebai, karst funnel, wet Fagus , Acer , Quercus etc. forest, 650 m a.s.l., 4.VIII.1986 ; 1 male (ZMUM), Stavropol Prov., E of Georgievsk, Quercus , Carpinus etc. forest, litter and under bark, 28 and 31.V.1982 ; 1 male, 2 females (ZMUM), Stavropol Prov., Kursavska, Robinia and Rosa hedge along road, 30.V.1982 , all leg. S. Golovatch. Descriptive notes. Length ca 11 12 mm , width of midbody metazonae 1.2 1.25 mm (male, female), metazonite to prozonite width ratio <1.7 ( Fig. 3A, 3H 3J ). Live coloration usually uniformly light brown, not reddish, about same as in alcohol ( Fig. 3A ). All characters as in P. abchasius ( Figs 3A, 3H 3J , 4C, 4D ), except as follows. Collum clearly narrower than head ( Fig. 3A, 3H ). Paraterga not upturned, subhorizontal, mostly acute-angled and drawn behind rear tergal margin starting with segment 14 or 15 ( Fig. 3A, 3H 3J ). Gonopod ( Fig. 4C 4D ) with a shorter endomere rod and a less heavily spinulate exomere tip. Remarks. Although the original description was clearly based only on the male ( Lohmander, 1936 ), the type series, “ Typen ”, actually consists of two specimens (male and female) which are to be considered as syntypes . To secure that the species is based on male material, the male is designated herewith as lectotype , the female as paralectotype .