Lithobius (Ezembius) princeps Stuxberg 1876

• Main Authors: Dyachkov, Yurii V., Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh., Tuf, Ivan H.
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• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Chilopoda; Lithobiomorpha; Lithobiidae; Lithobius; Lithobius princeps; Bor; Sergeeva; Yenisey; yenisey river; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6313145; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6313145

22. Lithobius (Ezembius) princeps Stuxberg, 1876 Terra typica: [Russia, Siberia, Yenisey River, between 61° and 62°] circa flumen Jenissej inter 61 et 62 gradus lat. bor. (Stuxberg 1876b). Lithobius princeps Stuxberg, 1876a: 17; 1876b: 309 (♂ ♀). Ezembius scrobiculatus Stuxberg, 1876a: 19; 1876b: 310. Ezembius scrobiculatus — Chamberlin, 1919: 19; 1923: 241; Eason, 1976: 100 (1 ♀). Monotarsobius princeps — Attems, 1909: 18. Lithobius princeps — Eason, 1976: 97 (♂ ♀); Zalesskaja, 1978: 121; Tuf, 2007: 64; Tuf et al., 2010: 11; Sergeeva, 2013: 530. Lithobius (Ezembius) princeps — Eason, 1976: 97; 1986b: 58; Bukhkalo et al., 2014: 71 (1 specimen); Nefediev et al., 2017a: 116 (1 subad. ♂); 2021: 39–40 (1 ♂); Nefediev & Farzalieva, 2020: 188 (9 ♂♂, 1 ♀). ? Lithobius czekanowskii Sseliwanoff, 1881a: 15 (12 specimens); 1881b: 7 (1 ♂, 1 ♀). Previous records. Kazakhstan: East Kazakhstan Region —SW Altai Mts, Bukhtarma River Valley [Kz32, Kz33, Kz34] (Tuf 2007; Tuf et al. 2010). Habitat records. “Pastures, woods” on 1100 m; “banks of river (woods)” on 1200 m; meadow on 1300 m (Tuf 2007). Remarks. According to Eason (1976: 97), L. czekanowskii is putative junior synonym of L. princeps (listed above with a question mark); probable but uncertain synonymy (Bonato et al. 2016). L. princeps is known from Siberia (Russia: Krasnoyarsk Province (Eason 1976), Tyumen (Sergeeva 2013) and Omsk Regions (Nefediev et al. 2017a), and Khakassia (Nefediev & Farzalieva 2020; Nefediev et al. 2021)). Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh. & Tuf, Ivan H., 2022, An annotated checklist of centipedes (Chilopoda) of Middle Asian countries, part 1. Lithobiomorpha, pp. 151-188 in Zootaxa 5100 (2) on page 170, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6145261